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Rosen Rye

lelds Best if Rightly Handled

To Return Best Results it Must be Given as Good Treatment as Your Other Grain

ID YOU ever see a- hlgh producmg
Holstein cow continue to give: max-

imum production if she be poorly fed and."
housed and forced to hunt for her nour-
‘ ‘ """ ishment?

What would become of Michi-
gan ’sDﬁne Jerseys, Holsteins and Guernseys

if our. barns, silos and corn and hay creps'
“ were destroyed? "‘unld they continue to

be the same thrifty high producing herds?
Neither will RoSen rye if it is planted so
late that it does not get a good start in the

fall or is forced to live on an impoverished

soil. ‘What-is the result of a scrub bull in
a high producing-herd? The same as
cross-pollinating poor rye with highvclass
Rosen ,-—na1'nely a deterioration

Properly handled Rosen does not run
We have several Michigan farms
Which give direct proof of this statement.
There are members of the Michigan Crop
Improvement Association who have suc-
cessfully grOWn Registered Rosen Rye for
eight to ten years largely because they
have taken the proper care of. their seed
and thru the medium of the soil and cul-
tural methods giVen the crop, a fair. chance
to produce.- Opponents of . Rosen point to
the farms where Rosen has ‘run "out”.
To be sure there are a great many in-

Why? Usually we ﬁnd that inferior rye
has been alloWed to cross- pollinate with the
Rosen with the result that the high yield-
ing Rosen beCOmes impure and inferior
and in W0 to four years possesses few of
the high yielding characteristics of Rosen.
Is this any 'fault With the variety? . Is
Rosen to. blame for. the fact that often it is

, By A L. BIBBINS
Extension Specialist M A 0.

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Big-Rye Acreage in Prospect.
OOKS LIKE a bumper acreage plant-
L ed to rye this fall. Michigan is a
great rye state. ’Take a good seed
bed, a; pedigreed grain, and almost any
kind of weather, and you can get a ,crop
to be proud of. Rosen seems to be the
best variety. Farmers who have grown
it year after year swear by it. But it
won’t do the impossible. Read Bibbins’
.advice on this page. It sound sensible.
—-Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

found, but. "

forced to face the bad influence of late
planting on a poorly prepared seed bed or
is made to eke out a living on a thin soil?
Of course, Rosen will do just as well under
such conditions as will Common rye but it
can not do its best.

The Truth About Rosen

Rosen rye is an exceptionally proliﬁc
variety, and does its level best to give high
yields of grain. In order to produce to its
fullest ability it must have the where-with-
all to do it. Given a good seed bed, plant
food and a medium early date of planting,
good Rosen seed may be depended upou to
outyield Common rye by ﬁve to ten bush—
els to the acre. This has been proved
many times on Michigan farms. It has also

" been shown that without these essentials

Rosen is just as good and in most cases
better than Common rye. The point to
bear in mind is that Rosen is a heavy pro-

ducer regardless of its environment but to
doits best it should be given favorable con-

ditions under Which to work. A good

strong thrifty man may do no more work
than a weaker .man if he is only half fed
and cared for; but if both be given good
environment and put in 'a hay ﬁeld the
stronger man should do the most work.
Rosen rye is the husky ambitious hired
man but it can not do its best work' if
pgorly managed.
Don’t Be Misled!

Occasionally we hear of a miller or an
elevator Operator who has advised against
the use of Rosen rye, basing his arguments
upon the fact that poor Rosen grain is be-
ing brought in by some farmers. Often
Rosen rye is docked because of low weight.
Would these millers and elevator men pay
top prices for low test Common?

Such advice is dangerous and if followed
by all'rye growers of Michigan would cost
our farmers millions of dollars each year.

Better advice would be use good Rosen
seed, keep up the .fertilty of the soil and
plant at the proper time. These three
points properly carried out would have a
marked influence on both the yield and
quality of Michigan’s rye crop and instead
of losing could be expected to add material-
ly to the value of our rye crop.

The Michigan Agricultural College has
conducted experiments which show that
farmers of Central Michigan will do well
to plant the rye crop about September 20th
to 25th, this date giving 7 to 15 bushels
more to the acre (Continued on page 12)

 

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car insurance because they have read about or
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enthusiastically welcomed by Michigan Farmers
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E F. 8» Grain Growers, Ino..
is. neither Socialistic or Bol-

> mud—rather, it is the re-
sult of a long standing desire on the
part (ii-grain producers to build’ a

inaudual cooperative marketing ma-

chine. Iris founded on » existing
laws, asks no special legislation and
moat certdnly will not ‘burn sur-
pluses to maintain prices,’ ” said O.
H. Watson of Lincoln, Helm,
incident of the new iarmer—owned
and farmer controlled national co-
operative grain marketing organiza-
tion, in an address Thursday, Aug.
4111, before the Lansing Kiv‘ranis
Club at a luncheon.

“Simply stated, the U. 8. Grain
Growers, Inc, plans to put the farm-
er in a position where he can fol-
low his crop beyond the borders oi
his on farm and keep for himself
the. full market value of his grain
lees only handling charges. (We
submit that such a plan is not a
menace to the public weliare, as
charged by the grain exchanges in
their present determined eﬂort to
propaganda iarmers’ co-oprative
marketing organisations out of ex-

. intends.

“Opponents of our movement,"
continued Mr. Gustaison, "are try-'
ing, to convince grain producers that
there is no difference between co—op-
orative marketing and Socialism or
state ownership oi industry. No
man with average intelligence can

. fail to see the diﬂerence, for it is

as obvious. as is day from night.
“Under the Socialistic plan prii
vats capital is, in effect, conﬁscated

' to be used in fostering state-owned
' industry. An individual is obliged

to support such a program whether

‘ he is interested in it or not.

' “Under the Socialistic plan pri-
vate capital is, in eﬁect, conﬁscat-

‘.'originating in their true ari‘ also '_ ..
. fused by the carriers. The Amati-V. .

can Farm Bureau Federation Sash . v;
to protect the fsrmer by inducing

 

honest manuiacturers to stamp their

woductumocﬂngmdurrmre

quirommts. .
Railroad and express comm

speciﬁcations for egg container: as}; '

"If ordinary honeycomb ﬁll-er
nun}, all ﬂat dividing boards and
trays must be of hard wondered
starboard weighing not less than
three and one half pounds to the
set of ten trays and twelve dividing
boards; each of which is to be of
sufﬁcient size to ﬁll the compart-
ments and prevent shim”
Excelsior pads in each side of the
case absorb shocks and reduce

breakage, but they will not take the

, bureau.

place of goal ﬁller, says the farm
__ Weak or boot ﬁllers
practically no“ protection. The cup
type oi ﬁller is said to practically
eliminate breakage losses. More
than ﬁve per cent of an egg ship-

ment must be broken. before a dam-

ago claim. is considered. it is said.

 

EXPORT RATES 0N GRAIN GUT
IGHT rates on grain,
products and byproducts from
Chicago and the’Centi-al Freight
Association -territory to North At-
lantic seaboard ports for export will
be reduced 7 1-2 cents a hundred
pounds as a result of conference be-
tween railroads and shipper! rep-
resentatlvcs. Michigan freight
rates on .grain are aﬁected by ,this
decision.
In arﬁiouncing the decision, it

‘was stated that “the cost of trans-

ed, to be used in fostering stator

owned industry. An individual is
obliged to support such a program
whether he is interested in it or not.

“Nothing of the kind is found in
the plan of eo-operative marketing,
under which the U. S. Grain Grow-
ers, Inc., is organised. While only

. farmers and their elevators can be-

come members, those who do not
Wish such affiliation need not join
nor can they be forced to do so.

Mr. Gustaison's address was a. re-
same
club two» weeks ago by R. l’. Mans-
ﬁeld oi Chicago, chairman of the
Grain Dealers’ National Assoc!»
tion committee which with a turd
oi $250, 000, is charged with the
task of actively opposing develop-
ment oi the U. S. Grain Growers'
plan, according to Mr Gustaison
llr. Mansﬁeld charged that the plan

exchangca’ campaign of arm.
dochrlngthatitwuldbenmfair
tor the exchanges to explain their
on methods of operation and tom

whathota'rned
and half-truths, not to say abso-
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portation service at the present time
does not justify the heavy reduc-

tions which the, carriers will make'

in apart rates. Nevertheless. these
reductions have either been decided
upon or are under discussion as a
result of the pleas oi farmers and
others for a readjustment oi exist
ing rates."

 

HOOVER 0N FARM CREDIT -,
ECRETARY Hoover's statement
that the Federal Reserve lys-

"‘ tem cannot be called upon. for

loans of over six months on agri-

cultural paper without jeopardiz-

ing the whole commercial banking .

structure is exactly what the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation has
been claiming,” states. J. R. Howard,
its president, in commenting upon
a recent letter from Secretary Hoov-
er to Senator Arthur ‘Gapper, dis-

cussing agricultural credit facilities .

and their hearing upon'the present,
distresing problems oi.
tion of farm products.”

“1 our convinced,“ says 'Mr. Hoov-
er, “that it competent inquiry were
made it would prove that great (is--
ilelencles lie in our agricultural
credit organhatiou is the mtemat-
ic provision for those needs men-
tioned between the terms of six
that is,
credits that fall outside the area
of both tho-Federal Reserve and the
m m Loan Banks." .. ,

The Secretary outlined the types
oi credit needed in the agricultural
industry as follows: .

“Imus up to six months for eith-
er production or marketing annual
produce.

“Lo-u between at: months and
twelve months for those purposes.

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HE THIRD annual mid- summer auto-

mobile tour of the Michigan State Horti-
cultural Society through Oceans and Mason
counties, August 2 3, and 4, was attended by
a. jolly but business-like crowd of more than
representing 21 Michigan
counties and three states. The tour ”was ed-
ucational from the'time it formed at theGm
ham Horticultural Experiment Station west
of'Grand Rapids Tuesday noon until it ended

miles south of Ludington early Thursday af-

’ ternoon.

Fully 200 interested fmit growers gathered
at the lOO-acre Horticultural Experiment
Farm, half of which was recently given to M.
A.'C. by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graham, dur-

ing the forenoon and were conducted through

the“ young orchards where the newly inaugu-
rated cultural, fertilization and pruning ex—
periments with all kinds of tree fruits were
explained by Professors Halligan and Mar-
shall. The visitors expressed approval of the
experimental projects and voiced a desire to
visit the Station two or three years“ later to
H. D.

praised for theexeellent manner in which the

orchards and grounds had been supervised.
After enjoying a. eoﬁeteria lunch, provided

the fruit

growers drove to Treasurer Munson’ s famous

Vinecroft Fruit Farm where they inspected
some 35 acres of vineyards, some of them past
30 years old, and plantings of other tree and

small fruits.

 

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Shelby Orchards Visited
Some 25 automobiles, every one loaded to
capacity, made the 80 mile drive from Mr.

' Manson’s to Shelby, arriving there just as

the sun was dropping behind the western
Oceans. orchards. The hotels were crowded
to capacity but the people of Shelby showed
their generous hospitality by taking the vis-
itors into their homes.

Early Wednesday morning fully 80 auto-
mobiles parked on the streets adjacent to the

~0ceana Canning Company’ 3 plant while the

visitors inspected the plant from cellar to
garret and upon leaving were presented with
cans of beans and peaches, and cigars.

The ﬁrst orchard visited Wednesday was
that of Thomas Smith, near the lake shore.

7 Under most conditions, results from 3 fertiliz-
'ers on intensively cultivated orchards are not

contrasting, but not so in Mr. Smith3s orchard

for several carloads of 110g manure had pro-

duced wonderful results in tree vigor and
size and set of fruit of the several varieties.

.Mr. Smith- prefers Bordeaux to lime-sulphur

as a summer spray because he thinks it re-
sults in less burning and cleaner fruit. He
had sprayed six times, using the old spray
rodsratherthanguns, and thejob wasso
thoroughly done that the visitors could ﬁnd
only two or three fruits showing seek in a 40

«acre block of old trees. .
rehard, recently purchased ‘.

The Semmn’ s o
by Thos. Smith presented an object lesson in

pruning peach trees. Mr. Sessions «21111111111311~ __ ~_

his method of training and pruning, and
showed orchards 14, 25 and 32 years of age.
picked from the;
pund- a3 fOur- foot stepladders. He
' 'zed the ‘adwsabihty of lowering or re-

" or; or years 'l‘thmsions trees are

.11 oldmdnewcropsamdﬂie prospects are

em-

‘th taps of peach trees about once in

. Ry ROY E. MARSHALL
Annotate Pmttmor at Hortiaﬂtune, M. A. O.

 

 

   

As the Farm Bureau Sees it

“EGAN WHEAT is going to stay
to Mme this year it Americnnlill-
.ershaveuythjngtosayaboutit,
an the Michigan State Farm Bureau El-
evator Exchange, commenting on the tact
that in early August winter wheat miller-s
I'm reporting a booming business and
paying up to 8 1-2 to 4 cent: more per
budlel than exporters were bidding. Mill-
m do not want any more Wheat. to go
overseas and they are paying the price to
keep it at home. The elevator exclmge is
now selling most of its wheat to millers, -
it is reported.

Prospects are good for continued
strengthening of the wheat market, says
the exchange. ‘Early in August the mar- ]
ket had about recovered fnom the effects '
of dumping a large portion of the new crop
3 on the market within .a eomporativcly few

days.
i The rye market is reported sick. A de-
1 011110 of twenty cents was noted in one per-
iod of ten days. Hay has come back to
around $17 a tan and may go higher, in
the opinion of the exchange. The present
upturn has brought the market to a. high-
er level than it has enjoyed since last
October. This is the «period between the

    

for but 50 to 00 per centot'n normal new
mop. Eastern buyers are reported taking
new hay from Ohio at prices that would
correspond to $16 and $17 a ton Michigan
rates. mchigan' s new crop will not be
rimming for two or three weeks, and the
prospects are quite strong for a. fair price.
says the elevator exchanger—Michigan
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a noted peach grower for many years and the
inspection of his orchards was indeed educa-
tional. 3

Brief steps were made at Mr. Averill and
Dr. Munger orchards Where cultivation and

Pure-Bred Bulls for Scrubs

HE DAIRY demonstratiOn train which

left Lansing August 1st, with several
cars of pure— bred Holstein cattle and dairy
demonstration equipment, accompanied by a
corps of dairy and live— stock experts, is meet-
1ng with a good reception on its tour north
on the Michigan Central and south on the
G. R. & I.

As announced in a former issue, pure—bred
Holstein bulls are being exchanged for scrub
bulls, ﬁfteen bulls having been disposed 3 of
from the time the train left Lansing until it
reached Gladwin.

The demonstration train is being supplied
without cost by the M. C. and the G. R & I,
Ctr-operating. Both of these railroads have

taken a keen interest in the development of .

dairying in the sections which they serve and
are always willing to co- operate in any project
of this kind. 3

The balance of the itinerary beginning Sat-
urday Aug. 13th, is as follows:

Saturday, August 18, arrive Mancelona 9: 30
a. 111., Kalltaska 1. '40 p. 111.; Mouton 4: 50 1p. 111.
Monday, August‘ .415 Cadillac 1: 14: p.111. Tues-
day 37 August 1'8, Merritt. 9. 30 a. 111.:‘Falmouth,

1'3 p. 111.; Lake City 5: 20 p. :Cadlllaq 10:50

   
 

   
     
  
 
   
  

  
   

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M30112}! 1.2: cop 9:39 p. m.
1'11 3 ' .3 - .3' 111.; Howard
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111.; Rock-
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" Ravenna
1111 Ron-

< . Fruit Growers Inspect ' Michigan Orchards

Examples ofSuCcessfnl Orcharding Methods Found in Mason and Oceana Counties

fertilization were of chief interest. Union
tunately check plots were not left for com-
parison. At Juniper Beach a cafeteria
luncheon was served after several parties had
taken advantage of the excellent bathing.

_ Results from Dusting and Spraying

The fruit growers drove through several
well-laden orchards west of Hart during the
early portion of the afternoon Where they
studied the orchard practices followed. In
Fresident George Hewley’s orchards results of
fertilizer tests on peaches in cultivation were
noted, following which Prof. Dutton explained
appraying vs. dusting experiment with Mon-
arch plums. Little fungus had developed but
the foliage of the untreated trees was sparse
and yellowish, contrasted to the large amount
of dark green foliage On both the dusted and
sprayed blocks, demonstrating that both dust-
ing and spraying were apparently
valuable in maintaining the general health and

'vigor of the trees and that either paid in spite

of little fungus development.

Benton Gebhart’s orchard offered an excel-
lent opportunity to study varieties and the
effects of top-working varieties on others. Mr.
Gebhart has won many prizes at fruit exhi-
bitions and a visit to his orchard 0r numerous
varieties grown under the best of care told the
story. Following the orchald inspection, Mr.

Gebhart, who is one of the oldest members of 3

the horticulural society, and President Geo.
Hawley joined in serving every guest peach
sundacs on the lawn of the former.

The autos then moved about eight or nine
miles east of Hart to Thus Smith’s Walker-
ville orchard. In spite of the long, dusty
trip, every man and several women followed
the congenial and enthusiastic owner through
his 52-311.ch orchard of thirty- -year- old Spy,
Baldwin, Wealtliv McIntosh \Vagener and
Jonathan varieties. The v1sito1s: were amazed‘
at the enormous crop of absolutely perfect
fruit of the several varieties. Some trees had
as many as 25 polo props under them. The
ground under the \Vcalthy trees was covered
by a layer of withered thinnings. A net re-
turn of $25000 to $30000 would be a con-
servatiVe estimate for this year.

A Successful “Operation”

Most interest centered about the renewal
workin this orchard. Six years ago Mr.
Smith noticed that many of his trees had been

partially girdled, probably through freezing '

injury. The bark had died three—fourths the
way around some trees and over a distance of
as much as four feet along the trunks. Mr.
Smith is not the type of man that gives in
under adverse conditions, so he began bridg-
ing over these seemingly hopeless injuries» on
24-year old trees, With the result that these
trees are today in a wonderful state of vigor
and are producing crops of ten to ﬁfteen bar-
rels and more per tree. Of course these trees
have been “fed". Manure has been used
when available and at other times high-grade
commercial fertilizers have been liberally
used The cultural system consists of good
cultivation every other year with clover sown
in late summer to remain as a sod for the fol-
lowing year. It should be added that Mr.

Smith is a Chicago commission merchant and "

must rely to a. great extent upon hired help.-

He provides them with the best of living eon- :

ditions and consequently gets very

men and he is generous in giving them credit ~

for the condition in the mallards. A3 load of

    

watermelons served by Mr. Smith was a ﬁtting

climax to the full day of orchard inspection-3
(To be concluded next week) ’

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[ stock Breeding of the Institute of
| American Meat Packers was appointed to in-
: Ivestigate the present conditions of the breed-
ing of livestock, in order to ascertain the reas-
on for the change in the type and character
1 of the animals coming to market.

The ﬁrst results of the investigation have
shown that the breeding of beef cattle re-
quires more attention on the basis of its pres-

or sheep. The chairman of the Committee
spent considerable time on the Chicago mar-
ket, observing the character of the cattle with
reference to type and breeding and found
that the cattle of the corn belt states are .de-
teriorating markedly as compared to those
shipped from that section ’a decade or two
I ago. After consultation ‘with various - ship-
pers, feeders, salesmen and buyers, he found
that this condition was thoroughly recogniz-
ed throughout the market, and that each year
the situation was becoming worse. The cause
of the deterioration is two fold: First, there )8
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is a larger percentage of animals the progeny
of inferior sires.

A recent press circular from the Depart-
, ment of Agriculture which treats, of the Chi-
cago market during 1920, shows that'
one-half of one per cent of the steers coming
on the market can be graded as prime, only
four per cent as choice, twenty-two per cent
’ as good, ﬁfty-three per cent as medium, sev-

enteen per cent as common, and three and

one-half per cent as canners. It should be
I observed that the poorest class is seven times

 

only four and one-half percent of what the
high class consumptive trade would have con-

! ago.

‘ When one considers the values paid to the
. producer the situatiOn is even more impress—
. ive. In 1920 steers of the prime and choice
grades weighing about 1,000 pounds sold for
aboﬁt $150 per head. 'On this basis steers of
the same weight in the other grades sold .as
. follows: good, $127.50 ;" medium,g $100.50;
1‘5? . common, $79.50; and canners, $51.00. This
:1; 5 makes a difference of net value between
, choice and medium steers of $49.50; between
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S W'E ALL know there are many

chances for misunderstanding and dis-
~ satisfaction between the seller and buyer of
wheat under our present marketing system.
Some farmers are of the opinion that all
dealers are crooks and some dealers are of the
opinion that all farmers are kickers. The
’ truth is that few dealers are dishonest and
. few farmers complain. without cause. The
3 wheat “test” taken by elevators has always
‘ been a fruitful source of trouble it being
well nigh impossible to convince the average
farmerb that his wheat actually tares as high
as the test seems to show.

 

er, but they are few and far between
the other hand, it cannot be denied that the
test is not always correct and the judgment
of the buyer always fair to the farmer.

A case in point was recently brOugitt to

      
   
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
 

who took a load of wheat threshed from a
received 60 cents per bushel for it

. enmuth 20 miles aWay, Where it brought $1
‘1 per bushel.

his OWn story that the reader
whether he has any cause for complaint

HE COMMITTEE on Improved Live-

ent condition then does the breeding of hogs‘

the cattle from this region; and second, there .

Iences are based .on the supposition that

only .

l
i as numerous as the prime, and that there is,
I

sidered as suitable for its needs twenty years /

There may be
dealers who use the test to defraud the faran- _
n .

' 11th to pay my thresh bill I said,

our attention by a farmer in Saginaw county, ,

seven- acre plot, to a Saginaw elevator and;
Another
load from the same lot .was hauled to Frank; ‘

But let our correspondent tell :
may Judge -'

 

 

BeItter Beef

IAICK IS A crank on better beet. He
M says that if two-thirds of the peo-
ple Who “chaw” away on cow beet
because they can’t get anything else, would'
sink their jaws. into a juicy steak of young
steer beef, they would double their beef
consumptiOn right avvay. ,He says it’s “a
- shame to make people eat such stuff as is
offered for sale in the average meat mar-
ket of the average city. When the con-
sumer is educated to demand better beef.
the butcher will have to buy better beef
and_ the farmer will have to produce better
beef” 01- turn it around if you like. It
works both ways. In any case consumption
goes up and prices, too. The Institute of " ‘
American Meat Packers hands out a lot of
worthless rations, but once in a while it
offers something which the public can
swallow and is good. It‘s committee on_
improved livestock breeding has been con-'
ducting ‘some investigations upon breeding
and feeding of beef cattle which should be
read by every cattle grower. Part of the
report appears herewith. Don’t, miss it.—
Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

These differ-
all
weigh the. same, but it is almost never true
that canners will reach this weight, while
common and medium steers will average a
hundred pounds or more short of this stand-
ard. In practice therefore, the difference in
value per head demonstrated above were act-
ually greater. '

The reasons for these differences in value
are two foldwfeeding andbreeding. While
it is possible that seme individuals in the
poorer classes could have been fed to a weight
equalling the prime and choice cattle, in the
majority of cases this could' not have been
done, or if the same weight had been reached
it would have been secured at a higher cost,
and the quality of the beef would have been
far inferior to that of the prime and choice
animals. The big difference, therefore, lay in
the breeding. _

In the Breede‘rs’ Gazette of July 21, ap-
pears an article by R. .A. Balch of Spokane
County, Washington, from which the fol-
lowing is quoted: .

“Why use a pure bred sire? Here is the ans-

wer: A difference in selling price of $53. 40 be-
tween two steers ot the same age, out of the

choice and canners of $99.00.

Are You Getting a Fair Test and Price on Your Wheat, Mr. Farmer”

Experience of Saginaw Grain Grower Shows that it Pays to “Shop Around” When You Sell Your Wleit ‘ ' I. 'I

 

 

Wheat From the Same Field

Sold to a Sagi- But, sold to a
naw Milling ﬁrm Frankenmuth mill-
brought Farm er ing ﬁrm, one week
Clark only 6 0 later, it brought
cents per bushel. $1 per bushel.

The Moral Is Plain—“‘Shop Around’
‘ when you sell your wheat.”

 

 

 

 

 

worth. The bill attached to this sheet is of a
load of wheat I drew to Brand & Hardin, Sag-
inaw, W. S. They claimed it was no goodytor
flour, just ﬁt for feed, and the grade test they
said was 54 pounds. I protested and one of the
head men of the ﬁrm came over and tested it
and said that’s all we can give you (60c per
bushel) My wagon being broken and I want-

to sell this ioad, but no more at that price.- " So
the 60 bhshels and 20 pounds after it was run
over th c aner brought me $96. 20 as you see

by 0:119 11 tached bill.

   

satisﬁed that the. wheat was so
7 bushels in my auto and (irone-
to the Star of .the west Mill
_e by the bill‘ attached They
he wheat and paid .m'e- one

    
 
  
  

' ‘th bIg

outside of Itli Iiniill ‘(

. were exhibited in spokane during the Fifth

steers were] calved in the spring of 1918,

December lst, 1 9 20;

during the livestock conference, with the11 object 1 ~

-- weighed 938 lbs.

feeders believe that they can make more men“- /

“Well, I’ll have '

1 Will often ﬁnd that “the

next What they had’ marked

 
 

due altogether to the difference between a p. i;
bred sire and a scrub sire. * ‘ "' The tW‘o steers

   
 
  
    
       
 
     
   
    
    
      
   
     
      
    
      

   

nual Livestock Conference held last March.- 8

 
 

 

dams being the same kind and quality of co
They were put together in the fall of 1919 and;
tel together during the Winter of 1919.- I920.

They were turned into the same. pasture in 13119:
spring or 1920 and put into the same feed-lot on ,
they were then fed all the g.
alfalfa hay they would eat until January 15th,?”
when about 20 lbs. of silage and 5 to 6_ lbs 0.2.; f
corn was added to their daily rations, puntil ..
Mirch 20th when they were shipped to Spokane

for sale. After arriving. in Spokane it Wife do"

cided that the two steers shbuld be 17,611“.

of giving people a visual idea of the diﬂer'encell
betWeen a scrub and a prime beef steer. :IJ'A ,,
si an was put up over the pen giving the weight .
and sale price of each steer. The roan steer,
sired by a pure-bred bull, weighed 1 410 lbs. and .
sold for 8c per lb, or $112. 80. The spottodIIiI, _
steer, sired by a scrub bull, weighed‘990 lbs. and ,
sold for Go per 1b.,or $59.40, the difference in l
the selling price of the'two steers being $53.40.," l

A similar result demonstrated by carloads .
was recently recorded on the Chicago mari-
ket. An Illinois feeder by the name of Mill— | . _ ..
er shipped two carloads of steers which he."
had fed since weaning. One. carload was " .
bred by himself, the progeny-of 7a pure-bred ;~' 4
bull, the other was purchased in his immedi—I
ate vicinity. Throughout the entire period '
from weaning the animals were fed and l
”razed together, and they ,were marketed on '
the same day. The load of 'hisown breeding
weighed 1,365 lbs., while» the purchased load
The spread in price was
75c .per cwt., while the total difference per
head was $42. 91, a diiferenc'e solely to Ibé‘
credited to the pure bred sire: .

A great many people lose sight of the great
difference in the amount of gain between
and bred and poorly-bred Cattle and see (inly .
the small difference per -.cwt in the selling
price. In the foregoing instance the differ-
ence of 75c per cwt. seems small, but the
diiference of nearly $43 per head is a very
sizeable item in the feeder’ s proﬁt. Many

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ey handling scrub cattle than in handling
well bred cattle, because of the greater
spread in price per th.. between their cost
as feeders and ' (Continued on 11096141

wheat and not knowing it was my wheat for she. '
Was a stranger to them, they tested it and told , .
her they would give her- 75crper bushel for‘iall, '
she had. Then she went to another company ‘
called the Heath & Auburn Elevator Co.. and
they tested it 56 and offered 930 per bushel for
all she had to sell so you see how some of the
companies at least intend to get the grain for
nothing. Brand & Hardin paid me just 40 ..
cents per bushel on this lead of wheat or $24. 08 .
in all, less than it was worth. No wonder ”1me
are are sore. Mind vou, I only had 7 acres .of ”
this wheat, all that I raised this year and it. ,
thrashed out 194 bushels, all stood up well, all .1
see-med to ripen alike and did not look shrunken ‘ "
tut the best they said was only 54 pounds ”—8 '. ‘
E. Clark, Saginaw County. -

Mr. Clark’s experience is a further proof
that men may diifer in their opinions audit.
buying practices. It is suggested to all 4'-
farmers with grain to sell that if they aranot
Satisﬁed with the test made and the pri

 
  

  

with other elevators in 4nearby ItoIWns.‘ 7”

  

 
 
  

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they ‘wih receitre f 1
than compensate them orthe has
No farmer Sh ,.
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'_ ‘mﬂhing I can do?

‘ “if

“31'ch ’i'ro ' harass ‘

3PE‘BSONALA PROPERTY.
.. a husband the right :to do as he
- likes} We ,havega .120 acretaxm and
‘ netttallwillm’ave 12 throughbred. Hol-
itplh «cattle. He wants to. selljthese and
wIi’dtns‘t.want him‘to.,My,son is going
on..the~:farm and would like .to have the
cattle. left. ‘ He is perfectly willing for
v-iintt'to sell ”everything else. Is there
-—E. L;, Michigan.

girlie law recognizes the husband
assutlief .head of the household — and

may buy and sell personal property
altihis, Will if it does not include cer-

talnﬂsmall exemptions, viz.:

two
cow’s,.ten sheep, ﬁve swine, _etc.
While he has the right to thus sell

. eitjisiusual for the husband and wife

' to‘bonsult'together concerning snob?
. matters.

The'only way . you can

' ' “ prevent his selling and handling his

ﬁeTsOnal property in any manner he
thinks “best is by your ﬁlings. bill
for divorce or separate maintenance

mend ask’the court to grant an in-

.9: i“ junction .to prevent his selling such

perSonal as you desire to prevent
his selling. .If the court thinks the

_ property may be sold to defraud you

~“t

of‘bu‘rrowing and upheaving.

E'ruined.-—V. Z. F.,

,

. he will issue the injunction.

'_vari~ous investigators but

If he-
thinks" you are asking for‘an in-
junction without just cause or for
(the purpose of annoying your hus-

_, hand, he isnot likely to grant it.—

Legal Editor.

GROUND MOLES

‘. 'How can I get rid of ground moles

working in our front yard. If some-
thing isn’t done soon our yard will be
Sturgis, Mich;

_One:--of the most perplexing of
the‘ common inquiries for control

' measures is the frequent request for
‘ information as to methods of con;

tr‘ol for‘the cemmon mole. The use
.of asphyxiating gases and poisoned
baits has been repeatedly tried by
‘ Without
satisfactory results. Atpresent the
'liestjcontrOlz-measure we can recom-
gmend ~ is systematic trapping. There
_ls-,littl,e'to choose between the two
[general types of traps, Either the
typewhich'impalesthe mole on long
spikes or. the type which is‘ set
across the burrow and which chokes
the mole upbn being released, Will
nerve.‘ The one redeeming feature

, about the mole is- the fact that trap-
_ ping will demonstrate that a single .

animal; can do an enormous amout
. The
important thing» in placing .the trap
isto make sure- that it is put upon

f ,f-“’-~a runway which is in frequent use.
,, {Some of the tunnels are used merely

'gpr exploration and traversed only
a single time, others are used daily
in moving abOut in search of-food.
The latter are the ones to seleCt for
the placing of traps.

I am sorry that it is not possible
to, give any more deﬁnite and set-

V 'lsfactory instructions but thus far

' g'ia month.
.‘ plants . worked I refusedto accept the“

investigation shows that the mole is
a, difficult, animal to control.———Al-
Jon C. Conger, ASsociate Prof. of
Zoology, M. A. C.

:IlIGH‘TING PLANT NOT SATIS-
.. .- .. .FaoroRY

I ‘1‘? 1: 0rdef¢d¥,.-.of «an agent -last August a

; gluing plants. He told me that 50
,s. of carbide would last me 6 months
lights. Several other parties got
the, e plants around here and none
of them gave satisfaction and could not

', theydid'it took .50' lbs.,of carbide to last:

1; use: them some'of the . time and whe

When ‘I saw the way the

one I had ordered. I hava. never signed»
our notestor same .or paid.anythlng..on
inw ._Can‘ the company compel _me tonic-
«oept the light plant and force me to
to same ?——C.. 4., Fayette, Mich.—__

.he’purchaser ”would be ’obliged

to love that the particular machine

d'to? him “ would not meet the

emoents or. .- the warranty.
at. lie-permitted to 1
machine. «was; {$1.61.

He.

 

~ honey bees.

.» grade Holsteins? 2.

pay. ,

~_ merciail liquid and

in. Prompt. mm attention‘orvonlm
' this "dopartmontw We 'nro hero tom >
bud: address, Mom. minced i! so requested.)

1 is the possibility that any oral state-

ments ‘of 'the agent might have beeh
made in such a way as to not be ad-
missable againstfa written contract.
It is a m‘atter‘to place before your
attorney who'would be able to pass
upon the whole matter after a. full
statement of»facts.-_——Legal Editor.

To PREVENT BEES FIGHTING
Lam a reader of the M. B. F. and
have received much knowledge on dif-
ferent subjects. And would greatly ap-

, preciate your advice on this question. I

caught some bees about a week ago and
they ﬁght on the‘ outside of hive. Why
do they ﬁght?
vent it?—-C. J. F., St.

The condition which you refer to
is commonly known as “robbing.”
It is a condition that is present to a
certain extent in all apiaries during
the times when the bees are not
gathering nectar from the ﬁelds.

Charles, Mich.

4 Where there .is but little ﬁghting at

the entrance the 'matter is of little
consequence. However, when col-
onies become queenless or when
they are weakened because of dis-
ease then the situation is usually
very serious and quite often results
in the death of the colony.

Methods of prevention are briefly
these: Keep all colonies strong or
contract the entrance of weak col—
onies to a point where they can eas-
ily defend themselves.' As a rem-
edy for robbing, bee keepers fre-
quently cover the entrance with
freshly cut grass or weeds. Usually
by the time these have wilted the
colony has become reorganized and
can defend themselves. In extreme
cases the entrance should be closed
and the colony carried to the cellar
for two or three days. Robbing
seems to be a natural impulse of all
The opening of the
hive at times when there is some
robbing, or the exposure of 'honey
at that time tends to stimulate the
robbing tendency.—B. F. Kindig,
Director Apriary Inspection, State
Department of Agriculture. '

GETTING CLEAR TITLE

I bought a fraction piece of land in
the year 1880 on a contract and it call-
ed for 30 acres more or less and when
the parties made the deed they did not
give me a deed of 2 acres that was cut
off from the farm by ..a river and we did
not discover it for a number of Years
and the parties had sold the whole tract
and the ﬁrst parties are all dead. We
cleared the land and farmed it since I
bought it and nobody has said a word
about the title until last winter. I want
to know ”our. title is any good. No

one has doubted my claim to this land.
, How can I prove ownership?———A. W.,‘

Breckenridge, Michigan.‘

. I should judge from your letter
that you had gained an absolute
title to the' two acres even though
it was omitted from the deed. An
adverse possession for 40 years
gives a good title. You would pro-
tect it from trespass the same as
you would the rest of your land.
The land is yours just as if you had
a deed. Should you desire a record
title you can ﬁle a bill to correct
'the deed given you or you can ﬁle
a bill to quiet title, and, upon proof
,of your adverse possession for 40
years the court would give you a de-
cree that would act as a deed.-—~Le-
gal Editor.
BATION FOR DAIRY CATTLE
1. -What is the best grain ration. to
be fed with. silage for thoroughbred and
What is the best
grain ration for calves from birth to
yearlings with milk? (both bulls and
heifers). 3. What is the best ration
for a .bull during the’breeding Seasoni-
How long between each service?
.4. *‘What is average weight of a thor-
oughgbred 'bull' calf at four months ~-of
age?: .I have one that weighs about four.
‘hundred. pounds”: Is he extra large?
5. " What is the best Aratiom for .a Cow
just before. and after fre'shening? 6
_ at is, 9.18096 ixdoporto use onset:
ftie? Wehavejri "eveninstandard com-
. ﬁnd condo! them sat
o rt}! there a. train ration :or
dicing; that causesga heifer togcornr
wheat? 11 . ‘~ name-,itze—H. A
\Alde lchi ’, .Q: .,

to;.1tt'xé .

»_ Order ‘3

What can I do to pres.

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It’s the System, Not the Men

ERTAIN country newspapers of central

Michigan are showing their unfriend-
liness to the farm bureau movement by pub-
lishing as news matter a letter which ap-
peared originally in the Ionia Sentinel-Stan-
dard, signed by N. E. Hayes, a “prominent
farmer” in which farmers are warned against
deserting the old system of marketing for
Without questioning Mr. Hayes’
motives we will proceed at once to examine

3 [his logic.

l

The basis of the argument is that most
dealers in the products of the farm are honest
men, and contrary to the general opinion
which Mr. Hayes alleges to exist, they do not
all make money every year. Indeed, in his
opinion, they should be given credit for bear-
ing some losses which otherwise Would fall
upon the farmer. .

The argument immediately loses point
when We remember that it is not the individ-
ual grain dealer which the cooperative organ-
ization seeks to put out of business, but the
system which makes his existence possible.
While it may be true, and undoubtedly is,
that in some localities certain individuals can
serve the marketing interests of the farmers
better than they can serve themselves, that is
the exception rather than the rule as experi-
ence has repeatedly provem Grain dealers
as a clam are probably as honest as men en-
gaged in other lines of business but they can
still be honest and drive a sharp bargain
with a. farmer, making a proﬁt for themselves

‘I out of what has cost him a loss.

3

The motivating force back of all industry
is proﬁt. A proﬁtable industry attracts cap-
ital and energy. When it ceases to become
proﬁtable the same capital and energy seek
other ﬁelds for exploitation. The fact that

. so many men are engaged in the business of

handling the products of the farm, and the
further fact that the organized dealers are
putting up a quarter of a million dollars to
ﬁght the cooperative movement, furnish all
the proof we need that there is proﬁt, ~«large
§,proﬁt ———in the business. There may be seas-
onal losses as Mr. Hayes says, but it would be
impossible to count on the ﬁngers the men in

‘ Michigan alone who have made fortunes out

of the business of handling food products.
We do not blame those men forjighting to
piotect their investments and keep the present
marketing system intact. We would do the
same thing ourselves, bit if we could not prove

'. that the present system is superior to the co-
5 operative system then we would expect it to

_ be superseded.
, Mr Hayes objects to the salar1es which are _
‘ mpg, Paid to the\ heads of the different de-

oi the. American Farm Bureau

know a;

l ny . 2 .,~ 1 ' 1.. .’
‘- 'Why shonldﬂhe fariners obyect to pay1ng~ 1 1
{vithese salaries when under the present system_

they pay sauna many times, larger and
ﬁts beyond computation?
who makes ﬁve or six thousand dollars a year
is only a tiny cog in the great marketing ma-
chine. ‘From him to the ultimate consumer
there stands many other individuals Whose
salaries and proﬁts are far above the three
cipher class. Salaries ranging from ten to
ﬁfty thousand dollars are not uncommon in
the grain trade. In fact, we know of a form-
er representative of a large grain company

pro-

m‘with headquarters in Chicago whose salary

was $25, 000 a year besides gratuities. What
the salaries and proﬁts ’of the men higher up
must be we leave to our readers’ imaginations.

If the present co-operative movement con-
templated only the substitution of local co-
Operative. marketing associations ‘ for the in-
dependent dealer, the game .twould hardly be
worth the candle ander. Hayes" objections
would be worth listening to. But this move-
ment which has succeeded so admirably in
Canada, Denmark and other countries, pro-
poses to take Over the entire machinery of
distribution from the farmer to the consumer.
It aims to introduce ectmomlies which are now
ignored. It aims to put an end to the spec—
ulation which makes millionaires at the ex-
pense of the farmers. It aims to prevent the
falsifying of crop news and to gather reliable
world statistics of supply and demand. It
aims further to educate farmers in the intelli-

gent production and orderly marketing of -

their crops so that supply may more nearly
equal demand, and disastrous price fluctua-
tions may be reduced, to a minimum,——tl1e ul-
timate object of all these reforms being to se-
cure for the farmer a. larger share of the con-
sumer’s dollar and make agriculture more
prosperous. If these things can be accom-
plished, we will bid good—bye to the independ-
ent grain dealer, honest though he may be,
without a tear. The world will be the'better
for his passing.

 

Revealed By the Census

CENSUS reports which are new available
covering certain aspects ofMichigan ag-
riculture, reveal some astonishing things. One
of these is that the number of farms in nearly
every county has steadily" decreased the last
ten years while in most counties the number
10f acres under cultivation has steadily in-
creased. This shows that the tendency is
toward largei farms. During these same ten
years the value of farm land and buildings
has increased from 20 to 90 per cent. Gen-
erally speaking the increase has been the

greatest in counties whichvhave witnessed a'

large industrial expansion, and the least in
purely agricultural sections, the increase re-
flecting the “site value” of the land rather
than its agricultural value. Many of the
counties show a falling off in the production
of crops. This is particularly true of the
southern tier. The “Thumb” and northern
counties nearly all show a substantial increase
in production. The completed census will
give us an unfailing index to how the farmer
has fared the last ten years, and should quiet
the speculation and misrepresentation that is
rife about the farmer’s prosperity.

The Fatal Crossing Accident

RITES Mrs. B., 0t Fowlerville: “We

'had a terrible accident one and one-

half miles east and one mile south of Fowler-

ville when the westbound passenger train

struck the milk truck killing the driver,

Henry Kuehnle and his seven-year—old son,
Robert’. ’ "

It’ s the old sad story. An unprotected

crossing, , speeding railway train, a careless

driver, :21. oath. No day goes by it seems,

    

  

    
    
 

that does :dd to the gruesohre list of the "
victims 1 ng accidents. How many
lives hay untied out at railway cross-
ings in

  

1 the‘lastyear we do not.

 

The local dealer '

food the $111qu of a7 doubt who _
is approaching? 1- '
But there is another Way that crossing sc-

cidents can be prevented. That is by com-1s-

plete grade separation or gates at every rail-
way crossing. It is ahnost impossible for
anyone to get killed on a railway crossing in
England. All of the main highviays and
railways are separated at their points of in'-.
tersection. The highway is either graded up
to span the track or passes beneath the rail-
way grade.
protected by means of gates which are lowered
night and day when trains pass through, at-
fording protection not only to pedmtmns and
vehicles, but to live stock as well. The same
precautions are taken against crossing acci-

dents in Denmark and Norway. .-
The State Highway Department is about to

proceed um a costly and impractical plan of
erecting warning signs at principal railway
crossing, although experience has proven that

such signs have very little if‘ any eﬁect in,

preventing accidents. The only .way to put a
stop to crossing accidents is to make them
impossible by separation or barriers If

European countries have found that it pays '

to take such precautions how much more
would the expeme be justiﬁed in this state
where the tra'ﬁic is ﬁve or ten times as heavy?

Not an Expense but an Investment
DEVELOPMENT of the St. Lawrence

waterway may be delayed indeﬁnitely
onthe grounds that the United States cannot

afford the expenditure at this time. No such“.

argument is advanced against the funding of.
a half billion dollars to the railroads on a
pretext which looks to the man who foots the
bill-as decidedly questionable. For four years
the government has been pouring money‘into
the coﬁ’ers of the railroads, but the result has
been about the same as you get from. pouring
water into a sieve. A hundred» million dol-
lars, more or less, would open up the Great
Lakes and the vast territory tributary thereto
for the movementof great ocean vessels which
could carry the products of the Middle west
to the far corners of the earth at a price
which the producer can afford to pay. Inc!-
dentally it would give employment to large
numbers of. men, and harness a tremendous
force of water which is now going to waste.
If the government can afford to makes risky
investment of a half billion dollam in the rail-

roads, surely it can afford to make a one

hundred per cent secure investment in the St.-
Lawrence development project.

 

Sunday Observance

HE AMERICAN people should give

, careful consideration to the consequences,
which are likely to follow the passage of leg-

islation to compel Sunday observance. Grant-
ing that it would be Highly desirable if all
business and pleasure should cease on Sunday
it is doubtful if this condition can be brought
about by legislation.
people can agree on what constitutes sabbath
deseciation. The minister, for instance, who
thinks nothing of taking a little pleasure
jaunt on Sunday afternoon, would be horri-
ﬁed at the suggestion that he sit in at a quiet
little game of cards. Some people who em-
ploy their automobiles or street cars to go
visiting on a Sunday would fréwn upon.- a
game of croquet 01- a ﬁshing trip as a shameful
violation of the holy day.
to be daawn‘l

Farm Export Credits

1111 BILL to make some 500 mean '-

dollars of the capital of the war
corporation available for ﬁnancing 1
ports of farm products has passed tb '-
and goes to the hm where it
' - 1 Thou

  

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The reason is that few .

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a. BRIEF REFB
YE READ, with care, the cour-
mlilgllnnner in ~ which... its. u.

aims, of Ottawa county,“ta_kes ‘r
'tion- mm. B. F. to the state-u

ref than. motto-card “It Pa?!
j. to dOvRight and It"Never
to dos-Wrong}? . ’ .-
urelyilt. __DeVos will grant that

re is‘a correct standard or right,
and that. is what the motto-card ad-
Herodvises using the Golden Rule

. Whichhas the sanction of the high-
est authority and .yet, even this is
:‘lioble to be «misused, as illustrated.
in. the act of our legislators voting
their fellow members $100, for 2

, by?" Surely they were so .doing.

In addition to ~the 3,000 small
'm‘otto cards, mentioned, the same,
words " have been printed in
large, clear" type, in large; clear
type, on heaVy cardboard; 6 x 10
inches in size-L-and, to the number
of 10,000 have been placed in the
school rooms of Michigan, thereby
,to old the 875,000 of boys and girls

in the forming of noble characters. ‘

If space would permit, I could
cite Mr. De Vos to several instances
; 'where ’the truth, stated in the motto

card, has secured the turning from
, wrong and accepting the right,——J.
T. Daniells, Clinton County, Mich.

Say, boys, why not compromise, and
use both?-——Editor.

TWO viEws ON THE COUNTY

' g 'NU'RSE‘ ,
I HAVE just readr‘your editorial,
. “The County Nurse." It is a
. subject in which every American
citizen should be interested. It
looks so innocent and progressive
on the surface—but is it? -There
are some very objectionable feat-
ures that appear on careful analy-
sis, and. we do well to look the mat:
~ ter squarely in the face. ' .
a One feature of the movement is,
that only one school of medicine is
recognised. ’ Those of us unfortun-
_ , any
other school or method of healing,
ﬁndﬂour views emphatically set
aside. If we are at a point today,
here in America, where we must

have state medicine (for that in just

7 what all this leads to) then why not
state religion?_ Surely the moral
condition of our. people is just as

great and serious 9. problem as the'

rivaled: than 'why not a‘certaln
class of religioulsts to the fore, to
the exclusion of" all others, and let
them dictate our course?
Another insidious feature is this
- constant pouring into the sensitive
child thought, these suggestions and
mental pictures of disease. If this
Joust be done, then why not 'in the
privacy of the home or physician's
‘ office in the presence of the par-
ents? This argument that is being
sent forth, that rural» children are
new interior, physically, to the city
'3 "_‘child, is an insult to every rural
' '61th and child, and should be re-

issued a hearing. Surely it is high

._ time for every. red blooded Ameri-
‘can to awake and see this whole

. ..;V_ thing for What it iswthepproverbial
wait in sheep's clothing. I am clos-

i' ing "with quotations trour onenof our
’fbreinost physicians, ‘ Dr. Richard
Cabot, of the Massachusetts General
Leﬁospﬁal: “The persistent trend of

finedlcai' legislation towards the end.

‘oinpnlsIOn——wiii eventually re-
tina revOuﬂon similar, to that

ehf'tookj place against compul-H

_ religious‘r-belief. * *4} There
patient as..,much justice in ‘a
utilizing the * deﬁnite rpm, of

one shall «employ for " his,

as new van-sis m. zed
,._1-lng , ’9. mortals religion

And were they not,
; Ethiodoing, “As they wOuld be done

. aggressiveness shown by this

“ ganizat'ion! . _

: ‘pnySically— endl‘meatauy. _

its the-flake'alr’.”f " 25f
" ~-. - :Th’e" “athletic program»

' "the other 50 per cent in diagnosing

and giving treatment "—-—Mrs. Geo.
Waterman; woodwind Farm, Ann
Arbor, Mich. ' . .

g _ Thank you. strafwuema. no: your
contribution to this dmoumn. I must
confess you have advanced some argu—
ments which had not occurred to me,
particularly with respect to the possi-
.hllity of edema between methods em-
ployed in treating children and the ined-
lcal beliefs of their parents. However,
you would have no objection to a county
nurse making examinations of children
suspected of being subnormat and! report—
mgtheccndiﬂontotheparentasothat
they might follow their own methods in
correcting the trouble? The main func-
tion of the county nurse is to detect de-

,,ﬁclencies which haVe escaped the atten-

tion of the parents. It is presumed that
upon the slightest intimation that some—
thing is wrong. with their children most
parents will themselves not to correct
the condition. But if not. and the con-

tinued presence of. these mildren in a -

public school means future misery, for
themselves and a menace to other child-
ren, who shall say that the state should
not act for the welfare of all? I think
you will find that the statistics you men-
tion relative to the ’oomparattve health
of city and country children are sub-
stantinlly'oorrect, and are based upon
authentic reports of physicians, health
authorities and sociological workers.

. There is no reason why such a condition

should exist, but the fact that it does
shows that the people of the country
are more careless of their health than
the people of the cities. They leave too
much to nature. Nature is a kind old
soul who performs wonderful works. but
she cannot do everything. She functions
best with intelligent co-operation on the
part of the individua1.——Editor.

APPROVES COUNTY NURSE
E HAD A county nurse in Em—
met county for/ one year, pos-
sibly two years. I am not pre-
pared to say how much money she
received. But I do know she had
to hire a car by the hour to carry
her over-miles and miles of sand
hills and through leagues of dreary
tamarack and cedar swamps in the
service of the schools of this county.

There are nearly a hundred one
room schools, usually in
situations. Each school has on the
roll from 10 to 60 names. I have
seen in these schools boys and girls
grow to be stupid, deformed or puny
men and women because of some
slight physical defect or ignorant
habit acquired in the ﬁrst 10 years
of their lives. Timely advice to
their parents and a rigid follow-up
by the boards of health and the
county doctor to see that theladvice
was' followed would have saved
these children. .

It is my earnest belief that every
parent who knows the real condi-
tion of a child’s health, and has
money to meet the expense, is more
than willing to give that child the
best chance possible for a normal
growth of mind, soul and body.
Dear friend in Genesee county, I am

leave baby chicks,

isolated "

so glad that every one in your (113-,

trial: 1 sable to pay their doctor bills.
I believe I may say the same of
the district from which I write.
But in the hills to the north, and
for to the 'east and south are un-
eouuted scores of bright little folks
growing up to a dreary life. Does
it cost more to help them now, than
to neglect them for 25 or 50 years,
to care for them in the end as in-
sane, idiots or criminals? Do you
lambs, turkeys.
etc., out in the dew tonight and
gather them in tomorrow with tears?

I saw this county’s Red Cross

’ nurse travel thru pretty hard places.

She‘was eternally on the job, boil-
ing sun or howling wind were all
alike to her. She was tanned as
brown as a herring. Her clothes
worn but always clean and mend-
ed. If you think she took this easy

(1') job to escape work just ride 25

miles some blistering June day in
the back seat of a Ford across two
corduroy swamps, over numerous
sand hills and maybe you will
change your opinion. And after all
was said and done that mortal wo-
man could do, the work was inef-
fective because there was no legal
way to follow it up.

Many parents have a dread of
asking for public help. Our health
department should have a law mak-
ing it possible for poor parents to
borrow the services of the county
doctor and give them a life time to
"meet the debt. This would take
away the sting. As our friend in
Genesee county knows people would
always rather borrow than beg. The
most effective way to stop this “is to
refuse to lend.

Your description of the borrow-
ing shows lack of system or plan on
the teacher’s part, or lack of co—op—
e'ration from the parents. We had
hot
er and borrowed only once, a cup
of sugar. If you experience this
trouble next year I should be glad
to send your teacher two very work-
able plans for a hot lunch program.
Not to be presuming, but I like to

I help teachers and children, and dis-

like to think of any unnecessary
friction in any community. Here’s
to the county nurse, more power to
her elbow. May her numbers grow,
and flourish like a green bay tree.
Yours enthusiastically—Mrs. Julia
Copeland, Emmet County, Michigan.

You, too, ilrs. Copeland, are entitled
to the thanks of ogr readers for your
excellent thoughts upon this subject.
Your opinions are doubly valuable be-
cause you have had an opportunity to
observe the work of the county nurse in
a community where there is a. pressing
need for work of that kind. As a. mat-
ter of fact, farm folks do not diifer in
their desires to have their precious child-
ren as healthy in "mind, body and soul”
as it is possible to make them. The only
difference of opinion is how this happy
condition can best be brought about—
Editor. ‘

 

 

 

‘ Musings of a Plain Farmer

 

 

HE FARMERS! Clubs. are show-
ing a true co-operative spirit
during the summer 'months’ and
have become a ﬁxture in some 10-

calities; vThey wave under various-

names 1 and have an educational
feature» which is highly desirable.
‘It: was my pleasure to meet re-
cently, as a guest with the North
Huron Farmers’ Club. And by my
right hand,1w.as inspired by the
or-
They are
Perhaps

enjoyed,» are. r. ,

much alive ..

recitations, speeches and discus-
sions. The meeting was conducted
with despatch and vigor under the
able leadership of Mrs. F. Kinch' as
president, assisted by Mrs. Patter-
son and Shubel as 'Secretary and
Treasurer.

Their campaign for the next few
months works around the young
men and women, the future guard-
ians of the farms. Juding from the
very liberal attendance of husky
young men and their fair compan—
ions I w0uld say they are already in-
terested. My personal opinion is
that they will succeed.

' ‘ In checking up I observed that

about 100- per- cent of the members

_-of.tli‘i_s; hustling club are M. B. F.
readers More credit to them.

{Mm'BLnnd’l Were placed on-

lunches in this school last wints

A NEWSY LETTER. FROM NEW,“
YORK 5
HAVE thought so many times
a .to write you a few lines fnom
New York as we are here new 2
and real glad this year as our crops '
are fine so far. We have thought 1

.so much to tell you hOw much we 5

like the M. B. F. I guess you may W
know as we still take' it out here.

We were just reading the report
of the editor on his trip. We were
very glad, Mr. Editor, you could
take this trip at this time. We on-
joyed it ﬁne only it was sad to
know of the signs of such hard times
again. We sure do feel for France
and England. The crops here in
Cattaragus county, New York are
very good this year. Oats will be
ready to. out next week. Corn is ex-
'tra good and is. now tasseiing out.
Corn doesn’t usually ripen in this .
part. Barley is good. Not much
wheatraised in here. Potatoes are
extra well in these parts this year.
Soy beans doing well, stand 2 to 8
feet high. Fruit scarce this year
but plenty of berries. Frost killed ,
fruit. Hay very good, crop great.
Dairy country here, price of milk
not so high as last year.

Now we are not able to tell you
how much we do like the M. B. F.
but will say it is the best farm pa.-
per we have ever taken anywhere
and the main thing we all like in
that we believe you still remember
there is a living God and you don't
forget to give Him credit. There is
such a falling away from the old
time religion and that’s what makes
the world So bad these days. We
feel you are doing your best for the
farmers. We never fear to write to
any of the advertisers in your paper
as we do others.

We sent in the name of one of
our neighbors and he likes the pa.»-
per ﬁne. Now we thought to write
this as we believe in giving our
roses now. May God bless and see
ﬁt to give you all a long, happy
life amo‘ng us is our mayonﬂl. W.
Hann, Cattaragus County, N. Y.

What do you say, dear M. B. F. folks. ‘
to such a letter as that? We don’t say ‘
anything, but down in our heart there
grows a little prayer that never so lu-
as we live may we do ought to shatter
the friendship and the faith of the that-
ands of men and women on the farms 0! ,
Michigan, New York and other arts.”
who are placing their trust in us,—
Editor.

IS PROFIT THE ONLY THING?

N DISCUSSING investments for
farmers isn’t there something
else to think. of besides security

and proﬁt?

Someone has said that what ails
the railroad industry is that when it
picks a man to run an engine it re-
quires personal efficiency, but when~
it selects one to boss a whole system,
merely asks how much money he
has. In other words capital, merely
as capital, dominates brain.as well
as brawn, under our present indus-
trial system.

The president of the U. S. Grain
Growers’ Inc., says of his corpora-
tion: "It recognizes capital as a ser-
vant—«only remunerating it for its
service value." The general adop—
tion of that idea means a revolution
in business ethics and a long step
towards industrial democracy. It
will be generally adopted if our co-
operative enterprises succeed. and
they will succeed if they can secure
capital at reasonable rates But a
large proportion of the world’s cap- '
ital is controlled by men who desire
no change in the present industrial
system. Can such men be expected”
to ﬁnance industrial democracy at ,
six per cent when they can get eight '
or more plus a voice in management J
by investing in stock of regular bus-
iness corporations?

we are all patriotic.
took their full share of .

‘bonds, many borrewing the.

toddit. Iknow one whod‘id

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have coins th- in!

te
. desk lately; Some I have pub?
linked and many are not for publi-

-:V<Vcation. They put real joy and en-
gﬁtli‘usiasm in my work for it is my
: chief desire to be of use to you, and-
the letters I have received show
that you are reading this page and
getting much good out of 'it. Most
of you, I know, are interested in
fashions and patterns, so a little
‘later I intend to devote a large part
01,. this page in two issues to a des-
cription and discussion of the styles
which will be in vogue the coming
fall and winter.—Grace Nellis Jen-
noy.
HOUSE HEARINGS ON THE SHEP-
PARD-TOWNER BILL
EARINGS on the Sheppard-
Towner Maternity Bill began
'before the, House Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Com-
merce Tuesday, July 12th and are
still going on. Dr. S. Josephine
Baker,
giene Division of the New York City
Board of Health, was the ﬁrst wit-
ness, and although her statement
was brief, so great was the interest
of the committee members that she
was still answering questions when
the session closed. V
“It is eight times as safe to be a
soldier in the United States army
as to be a baby in the United
States,” was one of the startling
statements Dr. Baker made before
the committee, quoting official gov-
ernment ﬁgures as proof. Her plea
for the Maternity bill was based on
the remarkable results which the
division of which she is director in
New York City has attained in its
welfare and hygiene work. New
,York’s child hygiene work, which
Dr. Baker described as “giving the
community the information it needs
inorder to keep well,” has reduc-
"ed the death rate of mothers and
children more than half. “The act-
ual death rate per thousand for
babies has shrunk from 144 per
thousand to 85" testified Dr. Baker.

Dr. Philip Van Ingen, Clinical
Professor of Diseases of Children at
the College of Physicians and Spr-
geons, Columbia University, who
followed Dr. Baker, began his state-
ment with a broadside of official
statistics concerning the mortality
of mothers and babies showing that
the maternal mortality in the Unit-
ed States is exceeded only by tuber-
cular mortality as a cause of death
among women of childbearing age.
The decrease in infant mortality
_ from 1915 on, he states, was due to
protection of infancy and instruc—
tion in hygiene. Foreign countries
are doing child welfare work as an
economic measure. according to Dr.
Van Ingen. and England, which In
1914 >appropriated only 11,000
pounds sterling for welfare work. in
1920 appropriated 526,217 pounds.
more than double its appropriation
for 1918-19. .

' Those opposed to the measure be-
gan their testimony on July 16th.

The testimony of Mrs. 'Albert '1‘.
Leatherbee, of Boston, president of
the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage As-
sociation is typical of the opposi-
tion. She declared the bill to be a
“paternalistic, socialistic, meddle-

 

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Edited by Miss. we!!! sums JENNEY L 9V *

Door— Friends: We all hood to ex roe: ourselves o _,
Let us talk over our work. our Messages, m,“ w. coulonaIIy
“have memo“ new friend:

.Ioo In whom
tore“. I think of you all In your homo'hond :mono your 1mm

families. VI fool- that ,I
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men throughout Mlohloan and some other
down with you or‘ your own ‘OOPM

bu
doo o.rttoo Ilow one do not let me do all the h—lhllno.
000 for tho mootpra ctloaI

letter of Mrs. F. w.. “'l'oIlIno Drudoory From Inlorkl'

cubscrIptIon to America can how

More In the place to do It.

ms?“ and o 1- problem: In bringing up our _

11' thru t o columns thls Mid! and
us mHomo ortment but to“ thousands of wo-

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some attempt to bring about bureau-
cratic control of family life,” and

“a fundamentally socialist'ic effort:

to destroy the family and make
children wards of the state."

According to Dr. Charles R. Hu-
miston, president of the Illinois
State Medical Society, who spoke,
against the bill, his chief Objection
to health nurses was that ,“women
of means may ’go to them and get
instruction and_ then differ with
their family physicians."

It occurs to me that Dr. Humis-
ton is a reactionary. What really
worries him is a possible loss of au-
thority. He reminds me of the man
down in Massachusetts who thought
that a woman should have no school-
ing for if she went to school and
learned to spell, some day she
might ﬁnds her husband ooulldn’t
spell a word correctly and thereby
lose her respect for him! Of course
this argument was put up m'mv
years ago but evidently the idea
still sticks.

WHY NOT A TIME BUDGET?
EAR MRS. Jenney and‘ Farm
Home readers: I have found by

three years experience that a
time budget hasdone a great deal
to takeVdrudgery from work for me.

The big bird had left a baby girl
at our home and it seemed as if I
never was done and I was so tired
when night came I could hardly
sleep and my work only half done.
Hired help was out of the question.
Not to be had. One of my neigh-
bors was using a time budget to a
certain extent and was so well sat-
isfied. I tried it myself. I have
changed it many times, always to
an improvement as‘my baby got
older and as the season’s change
brings on different kinds of work.
There are certain things that have
to be done. These were disposed of
to the best of advantage; planning
meals, washinlg. ironing, baking,
sweeping and dusting.

Monday—tidy up the house, ~get
clothes ready for wash and put into
order the better clothes worn on
Sunday. Tuesday—Wash. Fold up
clothes in summer, put the bedding
back on the beds, fold up dish tow-
els, hand towels and underwear.

Wednesday—Iron, bake bread,
put away clothes. Thursday—noth—
ing in particular, alwaysplan- to go
some place. 'Fridayu—Sweep and
dust. Saturday—Bake and go to
town. Then I.have a daily budget
and then the things I do by sea
sons. At ﬁrst my time was fairly
crowded, but as I ‘got myself ad-
justed I have plenty of time for a
lot' of things. I never dreamed of
doing even before I had children. I
have a garden and also turkeys and
chicks to see to.

I make no hard and fast rule, some 4

times let things slide along to spend
the day with a neighbor, or to go to
town on an errand fer hubby, but
I do know I have more time to my-

”self to eniov my neighbors and my

work is better .done than before and
I do more- of it and I have better
I den'lt have the
baking} to do as some as my family
cares very little for cake or pastry.
The are satisﬁed with freak fruit,
pia- cookies, puddings and cus-
tards that do not take up so much

.1on My time: My spring and summer
sewing I VdQ in Jan. VV ;:
do in January and February, ralso

make over those things that need it
at that time.t ‘

I want thank Mrs. ..
ney for thet swords: of cheer and:
comfbrt the; :

:ter. ~

. butter,

- powder.

’spoon’s of cinnaumn, 2
:‘gtngerr scant

and area, also

J‘en-

‘ ,

umn and me soon takes on a bright-
er hue.

.The article “A Wise Spender
Makes 9. Wise Saver” was worth
much more than a yeara's subscrip-
tion. I/am sending some favorite
recipes._ -

: Mother’s Cookies

1 egg. 1 cup buttermilk, 2 cups sugar,
2- level teaspoons soda, 1 cup shorten-
ing, spice. ,. Flour to roll. If lard is
used for shortening add a pinch of salt.

Corn Starch Pudding

1 pint milk scalded, yolk of 2 eggs.
2 teaspoons corn starch, sugar to taste
Mix eggs, sugar and corn starch and
pour the hot milk on slowly. Cook over
water, stirring until it thickens. Take
from the stove, add flavoring and the
beaten whites.

Caramel Pudding
Burn 1 cup sugar, mix 1- 2 cup flour.
1- 2 cup sugar, 2 1- 2 cups milk Mix
these with‘ the burnt sugar, put on stove
and cook until thick. It will form in a
hard mass at ﬁrst but in time‘ will be

alright. ,
' Salad Dressing
2 eggs well beaten, 1-2 cup sugar, 2
teaspoons butter, 1 teaspoon mustard,
.1-2 cup vinegar. Salt and pepper to

taste, mix well and pour over the salad ‘

I put the ingredients in a basin
water

warm.
and set in another pan of warm
on the stove.

Can anyone tell me about starting
a blackberry patch,, the care, etc.,
best time to set out the plants. Long
live the Farm Home Department.—
Mrs. M.

RECIPES

We take the M. B. F..and I-enjoy
the W-omlan’s Department very
much. Will send some of my fav-

‘ orite recipes:

Pineapple Pie

Mix 1 cup of, -.sugar 1 cup of sweet
cream, 1 small can of grated pineapple,
2 tablespoons of corn starch. «egg
yolks beaten slightly, 1 tablespoon of
buffer and cook until thick Place in a
baked crust. Beat egg 'whiies to 'a
stiff broth.: Sweeten and spread pump

and brown. Makesiwo pies.
Butter Scotch Pie .
1 cm) of browrl sugar, 2 tablespoons
of butter, 1 cup of milk, pinch of salt, .3
tablespoons of flour'that has been mix—
ed in a paste with 3 tablespoons of wa-
Cook for 6 minutes then add the
yolks of 2 eggs. Use the whites for the

top
Chocolate Loaf

2 cups of brown sugar. 1-2 cup of
1-2 ‘cup'of buttermilk, 2 eggs.
1-2 cup of boiling water .in which put
1-2 cup of .grated chocolate and 1,tea-
spoon of ‘soda, 2 large cups of flour,
vanilla, 'sath. .- ‘- '

Poor Man’s Cake
1 1— 2 cup of sugar, 1- 2 cup of shorten-

.ing, 3 cups flour, 2 1- 2 cups sour milk,
.2 teaspoons of Vsoda,

spices. 1, cup of

raisins.

, Molasses Cookies

1 cup of molasses, 1 cup of brown
sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 1 tablespoon of
lard salt, 1 egg.
vanilla. Flour to roll nicely.

Sugar Cookies
2 eggs, 1 1- _2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of

sour cream, 1 teaspoon of soda. 1- 2 cup

of butter.
Pickles
-4V quarts of cucumbers sliced, 5 godd

sized onions sliced, sprinkle over 1- 2

cup of salt and let stand ﬂv’e » hours
Drain and add 2 cups of brown 3:: .Ir
1 teaspoon of mustard seed, 1 teaspoon
of celery Seed, 1 teaspoon of tum. n11
-Vinegar to cover, put on the
stove to warm. then seal.

." Chili Sauce
8 quarts of ripe tomatoes,‘ peeled and

“chopped, 2 jcups of peppers. 2 cups of
.onions, -2 cups of sugar, 3 pints of vin-

cloves 3
teaspoons
ouﬁof.‘ salt. Chop all fine
and cook .uutIL, rather thick.
Ifg—t 5886:5119 lied ,will send. more.
-—-=:M"rs. H. 0., ochester, Mich

agar, 8 teaspoons of tea.-

r

be sunned once a- week. . They will last
longer and are more sanitary PillOws

1 teaspoon of soda,‘

Mattresses. blankets and pillows should

waiting, ‘ V‘
Or being lied abbot, don’t deal in 11s.”.-
Or being hated don’t the. way to Vita.“
And eri: don t. look too good, non
too wise. ' -

your master; ‘ : -
If you can think and not make though).
:.; your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph I‘M
Disaster ,
And treat those two impostors ,l‘lViVVst the.
sam‘ ' .
If you can bear to beer the truth you've .
» s pokon ‘
Twisted by knavesV to make a trap to!“
fools. : - .
01- watch the things you gave your life
to, broken

And stoop and build them up with worn-i:

out tools.

If you can make one heap of all. younV

Inn

And risk it: 01. one turn of pltchrOnd-ﬂ)". V

And lose, and start again at yolu'

xinnlngs. : .

And Vnever breathe a word albeit your '
loss:

If you can tor-co your heart and nerve

, and slnew :_

To sernve tyour turn lontV after you on

go - ,

And so hold on when there In nothing In

VyExcept 0the will which says to thong

‘ “Hold on!" ..

If you can talk with crowds and keep
your virtue,
0:- walk with Kings——Vnor lose the com-
mon touch, :
If neither foes nor loving friend: can
hurt you,
If all men count with you but none too
. much:
If you can ﬁll the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,

Yours iis the Earth and everything Vthnt’o‘V. I

And-—which Io more—you'll be a in...
my son.
—Rudyard. Kipling.

HELPFUL HINTS '

Another method for removing mildew.
Wet the cloth and rub on soap and ,
which have been mixed together and lay
in the sun or lay the cloth in buttermilk
for a short time and then lay in the sun.

To prevent blue goods ”from fading.
Vput an ounce of sugar of lead Into h
pail of. water in which soak the mate

' for two hours, then hangm3 “pd. to dry be- V
ron ' '

.1

fore' being washed and 15
To wash colored muslins’, son-much:
used this summer.

and soft water. Do not; soak them ant-
wash only one piece at a time. When
the suds looks dingy throw around yor

fruit trees and make fresh. Then ,
the garments in clear Water then slightly:
blue them: - Squeeze quite dry but .do
not wring the garments and hang in the

~. shade. . V . ~

. truest. and

. The little black am: can be extermin- '
ated by sprinkling the powdered root of
black flag around shelves, in corners and
Varound the baseboard.

Last but not least. To keep young ,
(any one interested?) cultivate a cheer-
ful temper and. be not easily offended...

CORRESPONDEN'PS COLUMN .
Miss L. B..—-It was a pleasure to read
your good letter and I have sent your
description of the knitting machine to
a reader who had just written to mo
asking for some Information about that
very article. I hope you may both pro!-
it by an. interchange of letters. '

M1;s.A’. B. D.—-I have sent for tho _
book you want and will mail it to you
as soon as it warrives

In a week or two I will publish o.
list of books that Will be helpful to those
teaching schdoi, as there have been so
many- mguiries. . ,

Up- to- date I have reoeiVed eight difo
ferent inquiries concerning the letter of
.Mr. and Mrs. Subscriber. It pays to
write your wants to this departméut. .

this week is one of the’
slrongest bits of English ever
It is life. Do you agree?

Our poem

thought out,

 

a Simple Flock for Play or S6hoVolV’-

Pattern ' 3013 Vil-
here shown. It is
cut in 4 sizes 4, 8.

8 and_ 10 years. ’13.

"6 year size requires

01"

however, should not be left: long in the r, ;

4:110 sunas tdraws

thers.~V .

coil @9th “”3

1 3- 4 yards of 33
inch material.
Pongee‘. taﬂeta
reap: poplin sing
ham, kindergalrateh ,

embroidery or braid
suitable

 

Wash in. warm sudz.‘ "
- made of Ivory or other good white so 11 , '


{ kings and princes and

 

“imii'*"miti ter» :5 ,
“an!“ in. thegﬂvrfg,’ :37 two;
Arthur and Eek, gnaw“. “ﬁle‘g

I .. 1!
'I'fllliary. , Jack, was thejstudentpf'the
.g-‘tanilly; He loved. to._,go_.toi school,
to read. anddoothen thingr like
“that.- Jack was very good to me.
Hog-tack me all over the city to see
' v-aihe~“i>nterestigng places. -_ We / went
» .\,,.;,,.te'gether-to Edinburgh, castle where
princesses
lived nearly 'a thousand years’ ago.

3W9 .stood in the little room where

3. Mary, Queen of the Scots, lived as
a little girl, and looked out of the

'» ’ window, from which the infant King

James was lowered in a basket
' upon the rocks hundreds of test be-
:low, to save him ,from his enemies.

On our way home we walked
'over‘ Calton,Hill, on which is a

monument to Abraham Lincoln. It
was -a.hard~climb, but I did my best

to keep up 'with Jack.» “No wonder
you: Scotch are a strong peo-
ple olimbing such hills as these,”

I puffed when I reached the top al-

most out of breath. “Gracious,"

said Jack, “you don’t call THIS a
111“, do you?” I didn’t say any

more. .. ' '

. You have heard of the Scot-
,tish kilt‘s, I am sure. In another
week I will publish a picture on our

page showing some Scotch boys in-

’k-ilts so you may know what they
look like. Jack had a wonderful
suit which, he always wears when
' hegoes “shooting."

f— .Arth-ur was the athlete of the
family, anda great cricket and ten-
.'nis player. Cricket is something
‘ like baseball, and is a very popular

gamein England and Scotland.

- Arthur was a good player, too, but

ltor some reason or other he was
.' ,,“of£ his game,” so he said,
. ~my entire visit.

during

L. - ﬁery w‘as sf chubby little
‘with long, golden curls, and freak-
-and. on cold-days (it seems
‘most of ‘the days in Scotland are

_‘ cold) her bare little knees
' as'red‘asgrds‘ses.‘ Every morning at

school.

Kborhood come in the

 

lads,

She were half-socks: to school
that

les!

we re

breakfast she worried .. that she
might be late to school, for she had
the proud honor of 'never having
been late “or absent a day ‘from

These children were very polite.

At nearly every meal Mary asked
the blessing; at others the boys
were required to do so. It was al-
ways, “t-hank you, sir," or “yes,
sir" and “no, sir."
. Back of the home was a wonder-
ful park where the'grass was as
green as spring time, and huge trees
and beautiful flowers grew. Here
all the boys and girls of the neigh-
evening to
play. And what long play hours
they have at this time of the year.
for the sun doesnot set until after
nine o’clock and it is still light
enough to read out of doors at
11:30! ,

Next week I shall .tell you about
'a little girl from Brazil whom I met
on the boat from Newcastle-on-the-
Tyne to Bergen, Norway, and some
day will show you a picture of the
big snow bank where we stood and
shivered on the 22nd day of June!
—Editor.

OUR BOYS AND 'GIRILS

Dear Uncle Ned—We take the M. B
F. I love to read the Children’s Ho'
I am 11 years 01d and in the sixth grade
I haVe 1-2 mile to 9‘0 to school. I have
two brothers. For pets I have two kit-
tens, 1 "dog and one pony. vWell. goodbye
Uncle Ned and good luck—Hazel C .
ton, Clare, Michigan.

\

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a boy 10'yea'r3's"

old. For pets I have a cat and ﬁve rab—
bits. We live on a rented farm of 4,0.
acres. We have two- horses, ,two cows.

‘ 50 hens and ‘23 Chickens—Kenneth Mor—

ey, Breckenridge, Michigan, Route 3.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl, ten years
old and in the-5th grade.
sisters; one is thirteen years old and
the other is seventeen months old. We
live on a farm of 80 acres. We have F-
cows. 2 pigs, 2 horses, 5 calves, about
16 chickens. I like to have the D00
Dads back again and like to read the

Children’s Hours—«Lula, B. Phillips.~ W114

liamsburg, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a farmer girl
13 years old and in the seventh grade
at school. My 'papa takes the M. B. F
and likes it. I have two brothers, their
names are Edwin and Estol. For pets
I have a dog, cat, rabbit, horse and some
chickens. I hope that some other litttle
girls and boys will write to me.—
Blanche F. Townsend, Saginaw, Michigan

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 11 years
old and I am in the ﬁfth grade. For
pets I have 4 cats, 1 dog and 1 calf. I
haVe no brothers or sisters. I live on a
60 acre farm. We have 2 horses, 5 cows
and 3 calves. We take the M. B. F and
see the “"10 Dads and read the .Child-
ren's Hour. I have 8 uck eggs and 4
guinea eggs—Bertha Rigg, Standish
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am eight years of
age. We live an an 178 acre farm. We
get the M. B. F. and I like the Children's
Hour best. For pets I have 24 ducks
125 little chicks, 50 hens and 2 guinea»;
The wheat is all harvested. “‘g'fl is
cutting oats. We have the highest corn
around us. Papa took us children to
Crystal Lake. We have 5 cows and u
Fordson tractor, 4 horses an” 2 colts.—
LuCy Thelen, Dmvnn. Michigan.

in a girl thirteen
years old and in the eighth grade. My
father takes the M. B. F. and we lil<r-
it very much. I enjoy the Children’s
Hour. I live on a 185 acre farm, We
have 10 milk cows, 12 young ("'ll‘.-'- 6
horses. 200 chickens, 15 pigs. We have
a Ford touring car. I would love to
hear from some of the boys and ; irls of
the merry circle.—Miss Marie Beecher
Caro, Michigan.

Dear Uncle No.

Dear:.Uncle Ned-éAs. I have

I‘. have two-

a -
, reading the 'M."‘B. _E..'and the letters-Jot,
‘ythe children hav‘e'becn writing I thought
Il would write and join.~ your merry cir-ﬂ,
cc.
we have nine milking cows and lots of
little calves, also, one colt, four-1110mm;
I am] thirteen years old and am 1111 the -
7th grade next. year.
and no brothers. For pets We have" I
Shepherd dog' named Shep and one kite.

.mften named. Bobbie and an old cat named

Fox. and we alsohavc ninety-eight sheep,
and lambs—«Tressa Benjamin, Pentwa— j;
ter, Mich. . . '

Dear Uncle Ned—May I come and
talk with you and the boys and girls?
I am a farmer's ,girl who likes farm an-
imals. For pets I have a small kitten.
whose name is Tabby, and some ducks,‘
guineas and other,poultry. I will be
eleven years old Tuesday. If I get along
well in school I am going to write on.
the eighth grade examination next year.
I hope to hear from the girls that write
to Uncle Ned—Erma M. Landon, Mar-
lette,‘ Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I‘ve been reading
the Children’s Hour and thinking it so
nice I thought I would write you again.
I haven't ever written to you but I’ve
written to Aunt Clare. We have a
bull dog named Bevo. My! but he has
got a pug hose. We have two old cats,
Kitty and Tingo. Kitty has three kit-.
tens and Tingo has four. So you see.
were pl'l'lfy well supplied with cats. We
have twl‘nlyuone goslings, ﬁve of them
are real small yet. They’re so cute.
Did you eye-1' live on a farm, Uncle Ned?
I have one brother and two step;broth-
ers, four sisters, Edith and Ethel are
twinsa They were two years old the
ﬁrst of April. They’re in St. Joseph
with my grandmother. My step—broth-
ers are twins. too. I wish some of the
girls would. write to me. I would gladly
answer all the letters I received. In my
ﬁnal examinations this year I got nine-
ty-live in arithmetic, one hundred in
physiology, ninety-nine in language,
eighty-two in geography and ninety-five
in spelling.—~~Mary Yiske, Galien, Mich-
igan, R 2.

Ned—I am a. girl ten
years old. i, have two sisters and one'
brother. Uh:- of my sisters is married.
and my brother is married too. We have
6 cows; 9 luml of calves, 41 young chick-
ons and about 40 old, hens. For pets I
have two cats My papa takes the M. B.
F. and lilacs it; very well. I like the D00
Dads; tiny are funny fellows. I wish
some of the girls would write to me.—
Florencu «“uriton, Levering, Michigan.

((‘hildron’s Letters Con't on page 11)

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with

' the door on the other, side '01 the mill.

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kept, ‘busy keeping the trough full 01

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aﬂairs but Tiny who seemed to be, en.’
joying the whole aﬂair did not -Va.-1wa.ys"-
behave as directed. Grouch was In
astonished at the whole performance:

.that he did not have time to ﬁnd tau

with anyone. Such excitement coal
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Michigan. I! you no census-on; ,s sale
lies as s: was and we will clslm the m

 

tor nu. Address. Lm suck Editor. u. 3.
F. Ivn. clomm

Oct- 21, Holstein; Howell Sales 00..-
Hovnll. Mich.

 

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LIVE STOCK AUOTIONEERSI

Andy Adsms,Litchﬂs1d. Mich.

Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind ‘
Porter Colestcck Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman. Hudson, Mic b.

D. L. Perry, is '
I. 1. Post. Hilledsle, Mich.
J. E. Rumrt. Parry, Mich.
Harry Robinson,

. Hutton, Lansing, Mich.
0. Rasmussen, Greenvﬂlp, Mich.

ﬂ CATTLE

HOLSTEI‘N—F‘BIESIAN

SHOW BULL

sired by a Pontiac Aussie Ruthie-Renar-
,vuld DoKol bull from a nearly 1911:. show
cow. First prize junior calf, Jsckson Fsir.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920. Lizht in color sud good individusl
Seven months ed. Price, 8125 to make
room.

Hurry!
Herd under Federal ﬁnnervision.

BOARDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. HIGH.

Holstein Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

 

Bull. GALVES SIRED BY SEGIS FLINT
Hengervcld Lad. The

average records of his four nearest dams are
33.12 lbs. butter and 730 lbs. milk in seven
days from A. it. O.dz1ms representing the lead-
ing families of the breed with records up to 29
pounds in seven days. Priced to sell.

c. KETZ LER

Filnt. Mlch.

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire “King P011.
ﬂac Lunde Korndyke Segis” who is s son of
"King of the Pontiacs" from s daughter of P011-
tiac Cbtbilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull. calves for
sle. 'l‘. W Sprsgue. R 2. Battle Creek. M1cb.

HOL-

 

 

AM OFFERING LIGHT COLORED
stoin—Friesian bull 1 year old from 21.51 1b.
dam and sire whose six nearest dams are 33.34

midsion butter. Herd under state and federal sup-
" .
llWall" n, Mlch.

Oscar
Registered Holstein Bull

ﬁtted by s son from King One and from a 22
lb. cow. $90 delivered your station. Write for

tree.
EARL PETERS, North Bradley, Mlch.

Wlscogln Farm. Unlonvllle,

 

 

 

TUEBOR STOOK FARM

Breeder of Registered Holstein
cattle and Berkshire Hogs.

Everything guaranteed, write
me your wants or come and see
them.

ROY F. FICKIES
Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

OME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED HOL-
stein cows. Fair size, good color, bred to
good bulls and due from July to December Most-
ly from A. R. stock, prices reasonable and

every one guaranteed to be exactly as repro
seated.
. M. J. ROCHE
Plnckney. Mlch.

 

1 YEARLIIIG BULL BARGAINS

Sired by Segis Korndyke De Nijlander, a 32
lb. so: of u twice Michigan ribbon not Just
dam, 29 1- 2 lbs. Dams are daughters of King
Seals Pontiac, 11 37 lb. son of King Seals. Rec-

bum

 

GLADWIN/ COUNTY PURE REED
LIVESTOCK ASS’N
Gladwin, Sept. 15th, 19.21

sale of Hereford, Shorthorn,
Poll and Holstein.
Duroc-Jersey and 0. I. 038.
Write for sale list.
0. E. ATWATER
Secretary

Fairiawn Herd—:Holsteins

Hire Slre, Emblaggurd Lilith Champion 108073
Hissl re’s dam Colantha 4th’l Johanna. world’s
first 3581 lb. cow, and world‘s ﬁrst 1,200 113.com
The only cow that ever hold all world's butter
yearly milk record at the some time. His dam
records from one day to one year, and the world’s
Lilith Piebe De Kol No. 93710. over 1 150 lbs.
of butter from 20. 599. 4 pounds of milk in a
your. World’s 2nd highest. milk record when
made and Michigan state record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan cow with higher milk record today.
His two nearest dams avenge:
Butter. one year . . 1. 199. 22
.................. 28. 515. 9

Champ's son: from dioice A. 3.0631112 will

 

add presume to your herd sud money to your
puns.
J. F. RIEMAN. Owner
Flint. Mlch.

 

A PROVEN BLOOD LINE

KING SEGIS trunmitted to hissans the power
to transmit to their daughters the maestest of
production overt] long gonads. It tist haggling;

t has n y ma e zreu es -
11m recedreamede of 37 7.3814 pounds of

We have for sale at moderate pricesb beautiful

duction ever

 

indi is 1‘ show type KIN \G SEGIS ulls.
viduan AOND RIVER STOCK FARMS

 

111 E Main Corey J. Spencer. Owner
Jackson. Mlch.
- Under State and Federal Supervision
OR SALE—4 REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS

ready for service from 19 1- 2 sud 24 1- 2 lb.
duns. Price $1 100 sud $125. Herd on sc-
creditod list.
GRIFFIN. Mlch.

‘M m. H oweil.

 

HEREFORDS

EGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE —— KING
REPEATER 713941, and Bean Perfection
327899 head our herd. Bulls are sold; have
some very ﬁne heifers for sale, in d or opened,
bred to our herd bulls. Come and see them; they

 

wil please You.
Tony 8. Fox, Pmp., Henry Gehrholz, Herdsman.
MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon Michigan

 

HEREFORD 1:1"er stmn-

We csn furnish registered bulls from 12
months and older, best of breeding sud at s
very low price, have also some extra. good
Herd headers We have slso s large line
of registered Hampshire Hogs, Gilts, Sows
and Boers.

Write us,
our prices.

Ls FAYETTE STOCK FARM. Ls Fayette. Ind.
J. cm A Son. Pros

LAKEWOOD HEREFOROSbufluiﬁ..,TﬁE

'1‘. cy are good ones. High class
ages. Best of blood. Come on nd see.
E. J. TAYLOR. Frermnt,

an as wbst you not snd set

 

Mlch.

 

s grandson or the 89_5OO Bullion 4th. Also I
few females.
Wm. 0. MORE". Smyrna, lion.

SHORTHORIS FOR SALE

_As I have sold my Cattle Ranch near Reed
Crty, Michigan, I am offering for sale my herd
of 50 registered Shorthorns headed by one of
the best Scotch bulls in the State, Master
Model 576147. This herd of cattle ar'e Drin-
cimlLv mans. Terms can be arranged. Time
W111 be given on approved notes.

..E M. PARKHURST, Reed City. Mich.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

F0“ SAL ONE EXTRA GOOD 18"MOS.
old Red Scotch bull suitable to

head pure bred be several cows and

heifers carrying the service of a son of Imp.

Lorne who was twice grand champion of Michian.
L. P. OTTO, Charlotte. Mlch.

R SALE—REGISTERED SHORTHORIIB
and Dame Jamey wring pigs, either sex; two
red.buils one 11 months and one 5 months old.
yesrs old

 

 

 

 

ords 16 lbs. to 30 lbs Priced at half nine. Sever-Al heifers from 6-1011”!!! to 2
$100 up. distally bested June 10. Write Scotch'llo snd Bates bred. Addr
for hat. GEORGE W. RNOLD 91' JARED ARNOLD
ALBERT G. WADE. White Plgoon. Mich. Wlillamsburg. R 1. Mid!!!”
AI SNOBTNEMS cows, "sirens. IULLs
SQLB AG l oﬂ‘erod st attractive prices

Bull all last sdvsrtised sold but have 2 more
that III mostly white. hey no nice stninlt 'el~
lows. tired by a son of King 0119.. 01101: from
I 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from 3
201b. Jr ayr. slddun, sheisbyssonst
Friend Henrervdd De K01 Butter Boy, on. of
the crest bulls

JAMES HOPSOI JR" Owens. Mlch.. R 2.

A HOL.
Both
3 50

FOR SALE—TWO BULL GALVES,
tein and Durham about 3 months old
have heavy milkingc dsms. Not registered
ouch if taken at on

CHASE STOCKc FARI. Marlene. illcb

REGISTER! ROLSTEIII OATTLE

for sale. Prom calves to fluidised cows.
F. E. .OOODAR. W lion.

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,, hm Nov. 18, 1920.
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IRED BULL
Mostly willie.

 

  
   
  
   

l-olds sndtrlesid

Wm. J. BELL. Ros. City. Mich.‘
HE VAI IUREII C0 BHOR‘I'HORI .HEED-
ers' Minion have crock for Islam Wank
“$va breeding.at ‘

rite the
FRANK.”

I More January ﬁrst. Will trade for seed land.

IAILEW Word. lid).

From the Maplein Ridge herd of
Cslved September
TANSWELL . Ins-n.
sues-mom: bums ms OXFORD sow-

M Bothsexforssls.
«LLMRIO .Inlr.llsh.,

RIOIILARO SHORTIIORIS

Herd bulls for 111111i511thlmo'.B mm Acres Goods
sud Collynle Cullen 4:311 ﬂvs year

blood Ill! and show prospects.
«11;» 1.33% .

EXTRA dooo suu. csLVEs gen and.
3 m... as...

horns
. mun.

 

   
 

Best of
Both

 

Third day of GladWin County .
Fair. ‘ ,
Announce second consignment

”Red '

females. s .

mvnmnv Hmrronss .53.“...3':

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n

HE‘ MIGHIGAﬁ Agricultural
College will be on hand at the
1111le State Fair with an ex-
hibit which will include herds of
pure bred Shorthorns, Angus, Here-
tords,‘ Jerseys, Guernseys and Hol-
steins; four steers will be shown in
the ﬁst class and a large exhibit of
horses will also be made.

 

Farmers of Clayton township.
Genesee county, met recently to
formulate plans for the community
breeding of Holstein-Friesia'n cattle.
It is proposed that each farmer own
one thoroughbred Holstein-Friesian
cow and that the best sire obtain-
able be owned by the community-

In the July 30th issue of the M.
B. F., the statement was made that
it looked as if Lenawee county
would take away the honors in the
livestock division at the State Fair.
The statement was incorrect in that
Washtenaw was the county meant
instead of Lenawee.

F. J. Drodt‘, Monroe, Mlch., will
make his ﬁrst appearance at the fair
this year, with a high class herd of
Duroc-Jerseys. Mr. Drodt has been
breeding Durocs for several years
and animals from his herd are'scat-
tered all over Southern Michigan
and many are to be found on the
other side of the Ohio line.

Fred Helms & Son, Davison,
Mlch., will com-e down to Detroit this
year with a strong herd of Durocs
which will include a. senior yearling
boar and senior yearling sow that
are positively sensational in char—
acter; the pigs nominated by
ﬁrm for the Futurity show are sure
to land inside the money.

The East- Michigan Holstein
Breeders’ Association, the member-
ship in which, is composed of breed-
ers residing in Ookland and Macomb
counties, will make up a herd of
pure-bred Holsteins to be shown as
an association exhibit at the State
Fair. Indications are that the cat-
tle that will be shown by associa-
tions this year, will exceed 200
head.

One of the leading attractions at
the coming State Fair will be the
fat steer exhibit including carlots of
Shorthorns, Heretords and Angus
cattle; an exhibit of at least six car-
loads of ﬁnished steers, nearly all
yearlings, is already in sight. In
this department there will also be
classes for single" fat steers, pens of
threeland special classes for grade
animals, the produce of pure-bred
beet bulls, crossed upon dairy cows.

 

The exhibit in't‘he- hog depart-
ment, at the coming fair, gives prom-
ise of being one of the largest round-
ups ,olf pure-bred hogs ever gotten
together in one enclosure. As us-
ual, the Poland Chinas promise to
lead in the number of entries but
the Durocs are coming strong. and
the Chester Whites are not far be-
h-ind. .The exhibit of Hampshires
and Tamworths will be large and
more Berkshires will be on hand
than ever before.

The sensation in the hog depart—

ment this year will be the American.
'Duroc Association

State Futurity
Show; in this show 20 owners have
made nominations and that the ex-
citement will be at fever best, just
preceding the making oi! the awards
by the judges, goes without saying.
The prize money hung up in this de-
partment is $500, to be awarded to,
pigs from spring litters, not farrow-
ed earlier than March 1,1921.

 

The Borneo district will be well
represented in the Dome show with
herds entered by Rush Bros, The
Inwoods and Livermores. The Rush
Bros. hard is strong in spring pigs
and junior yearlings, the Inwood

include an aged bear
and sat Wm sow motion“: nearly
me w ‘11!!! is myth as writer
ﬁba' “gym , , ,1QO will

   

 

‘show a boar from the famous“
, sire Demonstrator, that will make *3

.when crossed with cows of strong

' teller in charge.

this ,

dazed an' bewildered like, I learned

woud buy 3 lbs. of good dress
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his class competitors stop 11'9”.

   
   

 

 

 
  

Morrison Baker, who owns a kiss - v ,
farm on th‘e Dixie Highway. ‘31!!!
south of Flint; has on dry—sliced 1
ﬁne herd of black yearling steers
and heifers, the produce of pum-
bred Holstein cows and a. registered
Angus bull; these ﬁne young ani-
mals are true to the Angus type and
aptly illustrate the propotency of " .
the pure-bred Aberdeen-Angus, sire - » 7

     
  
 
   
   

  
 
  
  
  
   
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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A MESS OF “SPINACH" ~
Y LETTERS an’ in divers an’

various ways I have been ask-1;.

ed if prices an’ the cost of 11!» ' .
in' has been reduced here in Battle . .
Creek an’ ’bout the only. way I ‘csn ‘
answer the question is to sort of
give a comparison of prices—«10111— ,
parin' prices charged. by retailers, - ~
sellln’ direct to consumers to prion, ‘ - '
farmers are getting fer the stuﬂ r04
tailors are sellin’. -

Goin’ into a meat market a spell
ago I inquired the price of smokodv
ham. “My-ﬁve cents,” be: the
But, I sez, I don"t
mean biled ham, jest common, or»
eryday smoked ham, ham Jest as it
grows onto the hog, I sez, with salt
and smoke added, I sex. “45 cents,”
he sez, “that’s our price." he sea,

“n’ that’s what we’re gettin,’ ” Haw ,\
comes, I sez, that she’s so dum high?

Hogs is down now an" the war’a

over an’ wages has been cut an’ the , .
legislature’s adjourned—how comes «~ _, L
"that smoked ham’s so high, I sax. ‘ ,
“Well, she’s/high 'cause she’s high,”
he sez, “folks ain’t buyin' the cheap-
er cuts 1111' parts now,” hoses “an'
that makes. hams an’ such 'hlgh' ._
priced,“ he sez. ,- _ -._

How much is pork chops and ' ,-
bacon, I sez. “Thirty-ﬁve and this»?
ty-eight cents,” he sez. 4 - '

An’ what is side pork worth, of t 7 3
ruther, what do you sell it fer—ﬂu . -
salt pork kind? I sex. “Twenty—t“
and twenty-ﬁve cents," he 59:.

Well gee whiz, I sez, what do you
call the cheaper parts of the box,
I 992. The toilet looked at me .,
kinda funny like, looked all ’round, ’
’sthough he wuz afraid someone 3' .
might be watchin’ or listenin’ took ‘ 4,
a. step towards me an’ sez, “Well to ‘ ‘
tell you the truth, we can’t sit hdkL . ,
of the cheaper parts, consequently - l
we have to charge more for whtt - -‘ , z .
we do git." But what is this chain - ' j » '
part, I so}, an’ why can’t you sit ' “ "
it? _ . ~ .,
"He took me by the arm, led me ‘ ~_
into the back room, stepped up '
close and whispered gently like. » ,'

“It’s the squeal and it sits away 1 ~ ,
from us in the air. " Well, while in
that back room, after he had left me

 
 
  
  
   
  
   
   
  
 

 

 

 

 

considerable more. A teller was
runnin’ something through a. meat
grinder, something like nothin' I'd
ever seen before, so I asked him .
what he wuz makin’. “Pork salu- .
age,” he set. Out of pork? ‘I asked.
“Oh, no,” he sol, "it’s veal an’ suet,"
How comes you call it pork sausage
I asked him. “Well it looks all
right, don’t it? an' ain’t veal worth
more'n pork," he sea. Well, I sol.
mebbe ’tis, if it ain’t been dead to" ‘ i ' ,
long "Oh well we season it up ,3;
pretty good," he sez,"‘an’ most of '. 911‘
it goes to the restaurants, anyway.”
Well to make a few comparisbns
from what I learned on that trip,
mebbe you’ll like them an’ mob).
you won’t but all I_ can say is this '
is just what ITfound by askin’ 311' ..;
comparin’ prices. What I__ would "
have to pay, at that time, for a 25
1b. ham would buy a 150 jib. he:
from the farmer, hams and all . t
9. lb. of veal an' suet sausa,

   

  
 
    
 
 
   
  
  
     
 
 
   
    
   
 
  
    

    
  
  
   
      
 
 

  

 
 
 
 

 


 
   
   
 
 
   
    
    
  
  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

  
    
 
 

 

 

 

shirt. It would take about 2 go‘od
fat steers to buy one nuarter “ of
Beef cut up an’ {sold oif’n the block
an' 2 1-2 bushels of good wheat to
buy a 6 lb. chicken, of the feather-

ed variety. If a young man an’ wo--

man ranted to git married—’ course
net many of 'em do—but it they did
an-"r'bought their furniture ”on _the
instalment pl'an'an" paid $3.00 per
week, it would take 'em about 17
years workin’ three hundred days a
year to pay ‘ior an ontﬁt—an' while
women, specially in the city, don't
/ wear much of anything nowadays,
it would take about ten thousand
lbs. of wool, 10 good hogs, 80 bush-
eds of wheat, 5 lat steers an’ a mort-
gage on the house an’ lot,‘to buy
, clothes enough to dress one of ’em
1 tor a year. The man, by wearin’
his' old clothes an’ sleepin’ when he
. . ain't worki'n' an’ by wearin’ a bath-
in’ suit or bath robe part of the
time could get along with a triﬂe
less than it costs his wife, but silk
shirts 1111‘ four dollar neckties an’
twenty dollar shoes, ain’t as pop’lar
.; as they W11: 11. year or two ago nor
'as high priced 'either.
An’ these comparisons ain’t con-
! dried to meat an’ clothes—not by
i any means they ain' t—why durin'

  

for six lbs. to buy a cotton workj

   

 

his mind an wanted to take ’em
back home with him he had to add
the price of another crate to git ’em
1111’ pay for wrappin' em up besides.
It takes two bushels oi the farmers
'taters to buy one bushel of the
grocer an’ five bunches of radishes
or beets to buy one bunch back
again. If. he sells a quart of milk
an’ wants a pint for his lunch, by
payin’ two cents more’n the quart
brought him his pint is set before
him all uncorked an’ ready fer use.

An’ so the comparisons could be
carried on an' on an’ nothin’ seems
to be jest as it should be—the mer-
chants claim they ain’t makin’ any
money an’ bring their high priced
automobiles an’ large bank accounts
—and their wives an’ daughters,
all dressed up ﬁt to kill, to prove
they ain’t gittin' so awful rich—in
fact are almost losin’ money an' yet
they are hangin‘ on an‘ more of
'em are startin’ in blzness an’ the
farmer gits the blame fer condi-
tions an' high prices are laid to him
an’ the poor 01' farmers are break-
in’ their backs an’ ridin’ in Henry’s
limousine an' tryin’ to make enough
to pay taxes an’ not many of ’em
are worryin' 'bout dyin' rich an’ this
is the answer to the question, “Has
Prices Dropped?"" Cordially yours,
UNCLE RUBE.

State-wide Rains Boom Crops

Correspondents Report Fine Com Crop Assured by Copious Rains

Amour-Growing crops are doing ﬁne
Plenty of rain and may say too much
i rain for harvesting. There are quanti-

ties of hay yet to be harvested—C. O
8. L -

Barton—Rain the let, 211d and' th
which is greening up pastures, bel- 11g
corn and late potatoes. Farmers mar~
keting Wheat to pay bills, yield disap-

3 pointing of both wheat and rye. Oats
‘4 1-4 cron and very poor and light weight.

F.

_ Kalamazoo-«Rain at last! It com-
menced Monday night and rained steady
until 'I‘uesdaynight. One week mm“?
and it would have been too late. The po-
tatoes in the black groundare the best:
. those on the sand amount to nothing.—
H. A. Barnes.
tonne—Had some rain and need more.
Some Iarmers are trying to plow but
ﬁnd it rather dry. Some are threshing
and some are working on the road. Late
crops are looking ﬁne. Quite a few are
complaining of tomatoes rotting on thc
vines—S. B. Lyon-s.
Missaukee—Had a rain and hai‘
storm July 30th. The rain did much
1 good but the hall done much damage to

potatoes and corn, but it is thought,

1
i that both will come through all right.
The hail put the corn back some but
i not the potatoes. Weather cooler.—
’ “Jet’s
, 8t. Joseph—Lovely rain fore part of
‘ Week; everything has taken on new
i lease of life. This will make a bumper
crop of corn in this vicinity. Will also
,hump the buckwheat crop along. Farm-
ers are all encouraged. There is some
road work being done in, dii'terent places
and was needed badly tear—Mrs. Henry
I c. Holtz.
Genesee—Very dry in this county. It
has rained from west side of this couri-
\ ty to Hillsdale'the past week but missed
1 us. Corn doing very well. Pastures are
dry. Silage being fed by those who havc
idt. All dairymen must have summer sil-
( age eventually. Some plowing being
’G done but too dry for results—A.
Graham

‘ Huron—Crops nearly all harvested:
i oats and barley average about 10 bush-
I $18 per acre Need rain again. Beans
, look good also potatoes if only rain
comes in time. Pasture getting short.
' going to be a large acreage of wheat and
rye sown thi stall Corn doing ﬁne.
Cattle are not selling good, prices very
low.—James Keay.
Saginaw—Drouth conditions did not
' improve any at the growing crops so
i badly in .need of moisture. Beans and
l sugar beets probably suffering the’ most
as indicated from the color of their tops.
More than fifty per cent. of the threshing
completed. A tendency on the part of
farmers to hold this year’s crop—A; G
Bovay, County Agricultural Agent:
Allegra—Drought was broken Monday
and Tuesday of. last week Some of the
jar-mere who have spare time are draw-
mg gravel on the highway. By nexi
week threshing will be about ﬁnished in
this section. Some draw wheat from

hot and dry. A few out their cats, for
gay, as cats were poor, also hay—4L.
. M.

 

harvest about over with Some wheat
Md rye thrashed. Rye rmingsbout
15 to 25.- W bathe ,

  

   

 

machine to elevator at, Hopkins. Very ,

'. Oak-laid—A welcome shower, ﬁrst one
' 111 two weeks with a little hail. 0at_

   
 

the past week. The soil is in ﬁne con-
dition for plowing and has a good
amount of moisture in it. More Wheat
is being sold than last week. Corn and
potatoes are looking ﬁne. Early pota-
toes were a. failure but prospects arc
that the late ones will be a fair crop.—
Reno J. Fast.

Mecosta—Have had some good rains.
Corn maturing fast. Oats were very
poor, some being cut with the mower.

reshing not all done. Most of grain

ing sold. Rye is quoted at 850 per
bushel Some have commenced to plow
for fall crops. Raining again this morn—
ing, Too much rain for threslhing out
of the ﬁeld. . No fruit here; plenty of
wild blackberries. Beans and potatoes
looking fa1r..——H L.

St. Clair—Farmers just ﬁnishing oat
harvest which is a very poor crop. ,Not
much threshing done yet. The weather
has been ﬁne since the heat wave has
passed. Plenty rain the last two weeks.
Potatoes are almost a total failure. Corn
is looking ﬁne. Lots of ripe hay stand-
ing in the ﬁelds yet which will never br
cut, the reason is that the good roarl:
building is taking all of the help. Farm-
er's not selling much just eggs and
cream—I. J.

Shiawassee—Oats very light crop. All
drawn. Not sufficient rain to plow
Wheat and rye good, threshing in cast—
ern half of county nearly all done. west
em yet to do. Corn ﬁne. Crop will ripen
early as usual. Potatoes poor stand
both early and late. Beans looking good
Because of lack of rain early beans arc
lighter yield than late sown ones. Beets
growing nicely. Pastures dry. Very

few ﬁelds of clover to cut for seed this 1

year. Quite a. few working on stat;
roads with teams—Sup. Verne G. Wood-
bury.

Cheboygsn (South)——~After passing
the warmest term in years, Cheboygan
county is again enjoying its usual lino
weather. Several nice showers have
wonderfully improved the looks of
things. Pasture is very good. Hay and
oats light cropu Wheat and rye fair
Com and beans never better. Potatoes
poor stand early varieties 1- 3 crop; late
ones looking good Where the seed came
Many ﬁelds 1-2 stand, so dry and hot
that seed did not sprout, actually baked
and rotted in the hills. Plowing being
done for fall seeding. Many farmers
trying sweet clover and are well pleased
with results. Farmers also interested
in better stock and many attended Bet-
ter stock train on August 10. Very lit-
tle bulldmg being done. The Fair As—
sociation is building an addition to main
hall and getting ready for the best fair
which takes places Sept. 18-21.

Buy (S. E.)—The weather ha been
too dry and hot since early spri g for
most crops especially the late crops
Wheat very good only a small per cent
poor. Hay was light, oats and barley
short. HarveSt all done. only a few

oats may be out, early corn coming nice-

ly only bent down badly, some streaks
destroyed by hail. All crops are ripe

early. Not much threshing done yet

Farmers drawing manure and cleaning
up for threshing and not hiring any
more than .they can help. All prices or
farm produce low except potatoes and no
potatoes to sell and very few to use. So—

 

 

 

 

 

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,7"! ”GINO." BUSINESS FRRMER. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

ENTRAL MICHIGAN BHOHTHORN BREED-

ers' Association offer for sale 75 head: all

ﬁes, both milk and beef breeding.
M. E. MILLER, Sec’y,

.1.

UV SHORTNORRS ROW,
herds test without a reactor.

JOHN SCHMIDT ‘ SON. Reed Olly. Mich.

4TH ANNUII.

 

 

 

 

The Homeot

Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny

The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL

Supreme Champion t the
Bmlthﬂold Show, 1919, and the Bfrming-
ham 8how.1920,il a daughter 0! Edgar

The Junior Champion
Champion thale, Champion Calf Herd
and First Prize Junior Heifer Cali, Mich-

1920 were also the get

A very choice lot of

01111 —gi
by Edgar of Dalmeny y g bulls .rad

  

lowI rates: ask tor them. Writs today“

'—f‘-—FOR SALE, LARGE TYPE—.-=—“"

POLAND OHIIIA

170.8! Digs. Sir-ed by F’s Clansman 391211,
Michigan's 1920 G11, Champion boar, and
b! Smooth Bmter 395823, Michigan's
1920 lot Jr. Yearling Boar. Immune by
doubb txeatment. Priced to sell. “'1’”!
» or be. them. Free livery to visitors.
A. A. FELDKAIP
Manchester, R. R. No. 2 Mich.

BIG BOB MASTODON

eIs sired by Caldwell Big Bob. chamlﬂon of
world. His dun-1's sire is A's Mastodon,

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grand champion at lnwa State Fair, some breed-
1113.1 have 3 sows bred for 891%.. A fall boat
and spring boars that are corkers. Write for
prices. Everything guaranteed plea“

c. E. GIRNIR‘I’
Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 

B.T. P. C. A FEW TOP OILTS BRED 1'.
Highland Giant the 8500 bear 1'. Others bred

» to Wiley’s Perfection. Weight, 700 at 18 month;

JOHN D. WILEY, Schootcraft. m.

 

. T. P. 0. DOES YOUR NERVE SAY BUY
hogs? Vote yes and order a good one. Fall

gins bred to Hart's Block m

t Y
Mord} 24;}: at 850 each.

T. HART. 8%. Louis. Mich.

 

Sand for Illustrated Catalogue.
WILDWOOD FARMS

soun'no's one TYPE P. c. BOAR P1050
at weaning time from Minn l‘luunpion

$25 with pedigree. Satisfaction guaranteed
or write E. ll. LEONARD R 3. St. Louis. ch.

 

Orion, Mich.

W. E. Scrlpps, Prom. Sidney Smith, sum.

 

 

 

ILTS ALL SOLD. SPRING PIGS ‘SIR‘.
by Jumbo Ind, an 800 lb. boar. Ononda-

herd boar by Big Bob usindon.

DerTT 0. P] R, Eran, Mich.

 

 

BARTLms’

Swine are right and are priced
spomlenre solicited and inspection lnv'l
L BARTLETT. Lawton Mich.

ANGUS CRTTLE

 

EGISTERED ABERDEEN- ANGUS—BULLS,
{Heifers and cows for sale.

111111111 ALLEY giant's; Z

the Grand (‘lmmpion boar 0] Detroit 1920 Elm
May 8th. I‘ll‘si. check for $75 takes her. Gil
is right. so is “A? price.

D. GREGORY
lonla. Mich.

 

RUSSELL BROS. ..

 

 

 

ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS. SPRING
pigs either-sex sired by W'ondcr Bob. he by

King of Giants. The big-boned, good-backed
kind. Priced to sell.

WALTER MCCAUGHEY, R 4. Cram“. Mich.

 

EADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM—REGISTER-
J. E. MORRIS & SON. Farmlngton, Mich.

BEO JERSEYS

by Majesty's Oxford Shylock 156 692 also youn
bulls sired by Frolir’s Master l’ogis 177683 1
grandson of l’ogia 99th and
mentor, two great? ebulls of the breed.

 

HEIFERS 1 YR.

I. S P —4 BOARS BY CLANSMAN’S IM-
AGE and Big Defender. that or!

extra good. “FELL gills all sold.
H. 0. S

WARTZ. Schoolorait. Michigan.

 

me 11915 10111111 as? 5.12.: 1‘:

growthy. Best of blood lines rcln‘vsentcd. \Vrlte
or call. W. Caldwell 8: Son. SDrlngpm‘t. Ilch.

 

prices and pedizr
c. VlllLBUR, R 1.

 

THE BULL IS HALF THE
much would a son oi" Penis ililth's Duke 8H1
who has (it) per cent blood of Sophia l‘th. be

BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING Ples EITHER DEX

from large gmwtliy dams and sired by chola

herd boars. (‘ome and see our stock, price.
reasonable.

I... W. BARNES & SON. Byron. Mich.

 

worth txi’ your lmrxl'.
Let me send you 110' harms and prices on bull

calves from this bull uml .\' 'nhie Turmoiltor cows.
D

I0 TYPE POLAND CHINA GILTS DRE.
for summer and fall furrow from $25.00 it

$40.00. Nlluars ready for service, $25.00
J

o. c. BUTLER. Port'and. Mich. '

 

NE OF OUR MAJESTY BULLS VJOULD III.
11;“) \0111 her rl
P. NORMIRGTON.

 

 

Am (Moving Large Type Poland China Soho,
bred in l“ 5 Orange at reasonable prices Lb

fall was Write I-r all

GLYDF FISHER R 3, 8t. Louis, m.

 

GUE RNSEYS

UERNSEY BULL OALF 7 M08. OLD. SIRE.
Langwater Prince

 

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DUROCS

 

daughters average 416 lbs.

moses" 111103-.

on SALE—FINE IARCH AND APRIL PI“
Hired by Gladwl'n Col.188‘)95. Write 1.

your wants. .
HARLEV FOOR 81 SONS, R 1. Gladwln. Mch

 

 

GUERNSEY BULLS,

what you want in type breeding and prorluttion.
Have never had abortion nor tuberculosis
federally accredited. Prices

M. SMITH. Lake City,

 

 

sow BRED T0 MICHIGANA ORION SEI-

sation (a great son of Great Orion’l

Sensation) and Lllclliwulm Ihmonstrator (one
of largest beams in state) for sale at come".-
trivc 11mm Also big, growthy spring boars m

NIICHIGANA FARM, Pavilion, Mich

Kalamazoo County

 

AYRSHIRES

 

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE

uroc Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders tal-
fnr wentling pigs 1 000 pound herd boar.
JOS. SCHUELLER, Weldman. Mich.

 

FINDLAY BROS..

 

 

RED l’OLLED

UROC JERSEY BOARS. Bears oi the It?“
heavy-boned type. at reasonable prices. Wdﬂg

or ln-itvr. mine and see.
F.

J loRODT. R 1. Monroe. Mich.

 

ED POLLED CATTLE BEST OF BREEDING

 

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

 

   

 

 

MOTIW SdLE

OF DUROC JERSEY HOGS

August 18 Auyust‘ 13

l‘mlsiSMHg of 35 bred sows and gilts and 15

boars.

Send for catalog at Chnslr‘n F.1rms.Nort11—

villc or Thus. lnllorhlll & Son Hf‘u‘l‘em Mich.

Sale ruin ‘ pi n.
FAIR GROUNRS
Northvllle, Michlgan.

 

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. 0.

Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price ’
Expenses paid it not as represented.

Come and see them.

Orange Price and L's Long Prospect. .
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Puma. Mich.

ERE I8 SOIETEHIG GOOD.
One extra good lama long

bred to Howl-1's Clans-
Also younger gills 830 to

“sunny lRos..Mer1-ll].

 

TRIED sows and gilts bred to or sired by Panh-

anfeed. Como look 'em over.

3 SALE—DDROG FALL GILTS AND BREE
sows. One Duroc Boar from Breakwater

breeding. Choice spring pigs.

Louis B. Elwntrager, R 1, Llnden, Mich.

PEAOH HILL FARM

Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction M.

a low open gills.
Inwoon BROTHER;
Romeo. Mich.

 
 

 

 

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‘ PAM]. LAKE FAB

1 female 111:! for sale
mln.‘ MORRIS]: axon. Fm. Mlo

 

 

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you wish cosy
lies advertised

P911roo mu

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Ire‘eders’ Auction

I . . .
IEDERS' DIRECTORY ,THE MIOMlilANInlpsngat“;i

“.11“. ‘1.”. 4.».‘m'R—uyv ...,. ..

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH OLAB.

SPRING DUBDD BDABS

at reasonable prices . A few 1'lts bred for 8
umber furrow at bargain pricega. 0’-
c. TAY-LOR
Miien. Mich. '

 

Fob SALE—REG. DUROc-JERSEY spams
gilts bred to Rambler of Sanguine 1st. The
hour thet sired our winners at Michigan Stet:
Foir end Nation-l Swine Show.
F. HEIMS A SON
Davison. Mich.

01111111113 11111111111 gain:

1292 I 9
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Iro Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT 325
BLANK a POTTER
Potterviiie. Mich.

 

Herd Boer—Reference only—N0.

 

ANYTHING YOU

nunoos Farmer’s prices. WANT AT

c. L. POWER. Jerome. M'ch.

FOR SALE REG. ounoc SPRING sonns‘,

good breeding, prices. right.
JESSE BLISS a. SON _
Henderson. Mich.

' REGIST AR
nunoc JERSEYpigs by Defelfjeor’s Cafe"!
King 1315 up. Satisfaction guaranteed.

E. E. OALKINS. Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

 

 

OR SALE: ONE DUROG BOAR FROM
Brookweter breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton. Mich.

 

uroe sew: eno oiiu md to Wait's Kine 82949
who hll sired more prize winning pigs It the
ﬂute fairs in the last 2 n then eny other Du-
roe boar. Newton Barn rt. 81. Johns, Mich.

 

urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open sows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

still Md rite “Tush-$1111; a he! (I! [In '
w ,
3111mm: for 1.8. 26 or. 52 times. You an

breeders
elm)!»

must be modem newk
low «on: ask for than. Write .
FARMER. Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

        

 

 

 

TWO- -YEAR- OLD PERGHERON STUD.
big boned high class colt. from ton more and
as “$88
2

stud weighing 1,160 pounds. Price

JNO. O. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

1 PET STOCK

ON SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES.
breeding use. $6. Three months old Deir, 35.
Registered does 812 each. Stock pedigreed. Qual-
ty guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich.
REGISTERED

AIHEQALE PUPSA C. stock of the

(inning struin. Make ﬂneA watchdogs for poultry
and farm homes. P gress furnished. Males

$25. Females $15.
R. (3. Kirby, R 1, East Lansing, Mich.

 

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FROM

 

SILVEROREST KENNELS OFFER FOR SALE
:1 choice little of Reg. Scotch Collie Puppies
Sable MIN; wgite.

SAVE MONEY!

renewing the BUSINESS
FARMER in combination with your
favorite daily.
THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMER and any one of the daily
newspapers listed befow WILL

HUBER. Giadwln, Mich.

 

BOTH BE SENT FOR ONE FULL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is? fugilegoiiiaizgg “3”“3,“ 1111“,}? J,“:,& YEAR for amount shown.
Gratiot Co Newton 6: Blank Perrinton Mich.
F P ...... .
Dunno BOAR ms .1125. 3.1.2.11: DETROIT ..:::...~=. ........ $2.23
Orion Cherry King and Proud Colonel breeding. Times --------- 5-50
s“”"iz°§3’én“““é’k“ﬁ‘§2n, 132...: m: m
a v n /
" ° 9“ GRAND RAPIDS "2221.1117321 2:23
E OFFER A FEW WELL~BRED eELgcr. em __________ 4.50
Gilda 1"I113:gonDurécnBough” elm bred so“ and
McNAUOl-ITON a Fonovoe. er. Louie. Mich. TOLEBO Tagginrln tgg
0. I. C. ....... 4.50.
. CHICAGO gorzid ‘ Ejamlnelr. 6511205
. D I D AND DHESTEB WHITE ' rovers “m“ '
i . 1 z z: ' l l ' .
more“ fuses 11:211....‘huss W Jicxsou sue". our. _. :22
CLARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mich.
o. c. SWINE—MY HERD courems THE BATTLE GREEK “5.3223333.” 31%?)
”09d 'imke. ‘tﬂjlilvee miiilt aghii‘ver'lergrlcee an furnish
"u .mAc. .11 oono'én. Dorr. Mich” n a. SAGINAW "WS'CWP'" 5.50
I. c.’ SER I0 8, SPRING PIGS _
at Far-Ufa” ”ﬁves E BOAR LANSING State Journal .. 5.50
OLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.
CITESTER WHITES KALAMAZOO Gazette ........ 5.50
. on: '
BREDDILT Ffe?s;'."'§.i.‘sf“?.‘3§"‘£m. A... FLINT “m" 2‘“
1011112 Digs. Write me your wants. Prices right. .
. RALPH OOSENS. R 1. Levering, Mich. BIG RAPIDS Pioneer q _ 4.50
HAMPSHRES PORT Huﬂou Times-Herald . 5.50
AMPSHIRE BRED GILTS NOW READY TO
fpsllantian Press 8.50

ship. A bargain in [all and spring boar pigs.

JOHN W. SNYDER, R 4. St. Johns. Mich.

 

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good sows end gilts, bred
for Mn‘rch and April furrowing.

 

choice fall pigs either sex, Write or call
GUS THOMAS, New! Lothrop. Mich.
SHEEP : ’1

 

 

SHBDPSHIBES

Ten breeding owes—cheap.
One imported Minton ram at one- -hal.f price
10 choice ram lambs.
DAN BOOHER -
Evert, R 4, .Mich.

 

FOR SHROPSHIRE YEARLING RAMS THAT
have sire and type. ‘all or Wri.te

 

. Armstrong Bros.. R.R. No.3. Fowlerviiie. Mich.
ERINO RAMS FOR SALE. GOOD BIG-
h nod lwzny shearers. .
HOFSEMAN BROS . R 4. Albion. Mich.

 

AMPSHIRE'S, BUCK LAMBS AND YEARL-
ings. Make your selection now for later ship—
ment. Will spare a few good ewes.
J. M. WILLIAMS

North Adams.- Mich.

BETTER BREEDING STDDK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire reml
write or visit
KPO P-EKON FARMS, 8. L. Whig) Prop.
Goldwater, Mich '
See .our exhibit et the Ohio end Michinn
ltete Fairs. ~ '

 

 

' HAMPSHIRE SHEEP:

5 ram: and some
garb: Ileft to client 5 ewee‘ all egee forl‘e
m it deli very. Everythl rything guaranteed u
re

OL'ARKE U. HAIRLqut Drench. Mich.

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Also 1 few-

[ 1 Breeders' Directory

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NOTE. Daily papers at the above combination
rate are mailed to R. F. D. midents oniy. "No
order: can be accepted without R. F. D m-
ber. Our rates on Michigan dailies apply" um,
the state of Michigan only.

Send All Orders to

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FABMEB

Mt. Clemens. Michigan

 

“Every
‘ Breeder

 

Can use M. B. F.’s

to good advantage.

'Run your ad. and
watch the returns

come in.

WHAT HAVE YOU. '
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The Best Breeders

: advertise in 3‘h‘e Michigan Bus-
mess Farmer, It will be worth

 

 

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GREY,

 

: . your whi1° to read the livestock: Dal
{0 keep 5131113th on What they ,

 

631' 11111111

3 parts ground corn or ground bar-
ley, 2 parts ground oats ‘or bran, 1
part .linseed oil meal. Mix _by_

w.eight A pound of this should be
given for each four pounds of milk
produced per day.

2. The above ration is also ex-
ceptionally good for calves When
they need grain from the time they
are born. until the time they are in
milk. H-owiever, the grain ration‘
for the calf will depend somewhat

upon the roughage it is getting. If

at all possible the calf should get
alfalfa, clover or some other legum-
inous hay and plenty of it.. A good
farm grown ration after it has
reached the age. of two. months is
shelled corn and whole oats, about
equal parts. The calves will actual-
ly eat the shelled corn in preference
to the ground corn and do excep—
tionally well on it.

3. The same ration mentioned
above is also a ration for ,the bull
during the breeding season. I would
prefer to have oats in the ration
rather than .bran. Growing bulls
should have leguminous hay, but
with the mature bull this is not so
necessary.

An aged bull can be used in ser-
vice once a day with no bad results.
On rare occasions may be oftener
than this.

4. The average weight that a‘
calf‘should be at four months of

age would depend entirely upon the

breed that he belongs to. The nOr-
mal weight of a Holstein at four
months of age should be about 250
pounds. This is growing them in a
good average condition. It.1s pos-
sible that if a Holstein is extra
large at birth to make him weigh
400 pounds or better at the end of
four months, but is not a normal
growth.
is extra. large for a hull of his age
if he is a Holstein. A Jersey bull
at four months of age would weigh

somewhere around 175 to 2.00
pounds. '
5. The best ration for a cow

just before freshening is One that
contains very little corn or extreme-
ly heating foods. The ration .men-
tiOned above may be fed up to With-.
in a few days of calving and then
change to a ration of either straight
bran or bran and a small amount of
linseed oil meal added to it, de-
pending upon the likes and dislikes
of the cow. This same . ration
might be continued a few days af-
ter calving. The principal thing is
to give the cow all the water and
hay 0r roughage that she will 'con-
sume at this'tlme.’ Silage may be
fed when in season as it has a good
effect upon the digestive system.

6. Regarding a fly dope for -cat-

tie will say that the recipe below is

as good as any I know of and is
quite inexpensive in preparation:
12 ozs. crude carbolic acid, 12 ozs.
turpentine, 12 ozs. oil of tar,'.12 ozs.
tannin. Make up to ﬁve gallons with
kerosene.

7. When a heifer is fed very
heavily from birth during the grow-
ing period she will breed.a, great
deal earlier than if she is carried on
a very meagre ration consisting'most-
ly of roughage, during this period.
In-an experiment that I conducted
I found that heavily feeding calves
on whole milk and grain \brought
them to sexual maturity at a much

earlier date than was the case where ,

heifers were fed on a ration consist
ing of hay and silage or hay alone.
The dinerence in time ranged frOm
three to ten months I do’ not use
any condiment or medicine in an ex-
periment of this ’kind. .- .~

  
 

' you please "
the muowmgf. Some lions, , ,
Chase (1 fmnd, .114“ f1 ‘

. . gr
ration would naturslly be a. little «»
different.- from the ration that is fed

in the average hé'rd. A ration that
'we- like very well for the ordinary
milking herd is about as follows:

I would say that your bull '

 
  
  
    
   

the garage
make it so at" ,
to make it comply with the war; :.
ranty you was obliged to go to stuff,
expense the garage would 111111116311;
for that ensued—Legal E tor. " ‘

 

mm?) YOU USED THIS m 11.15;
> I notice you carry an. ad. for-the
Ever‘Set Trap Co.,'name1y, a. spar--~
row trap. I wrote the company send-' '
ing them the name of our implé-i

ment dealer telling them I would prét "

fer to get it tlTru him and that if
the traps were as they recommended .
them to be they would ﬁnd a ready--
sale for them through our dealer. f
They wrote me again wanting t0“
send the trap direct to me on re-
ceipt of $5, guaranteeing the trap,
or refunding my money. Do you or
anyone else know their sparr‘oW'tra‘p
.to be a success. 'So ”many "drink"
noWadays guarantee their’gnods or
promise‘ to. refund your money MT

in many cases fall to return‘o‘n‘e’s
money. If. the Ever Set Sparrow
trap is a success it is well worth
what they ask for it and Would cer- .
tain'ly sell well among the farmers
and do a world of good. —J. C. L.,
Ingham' County.

 

SELLING LIILK‘ IN COUNTRY .
Will you please give the law‘ in re-
gard to sale of milk in Michigan? A
wishes to sell milk from his‘ farm and
deliver it in bottles to a. summer resort '
during the resort months. Does he re-
quire a license to do so? Does he have
to pasteurize the milk? If he buys milk
of a. neighbor “in case he hasn’t enough
from his own farm does he require a
“dense? What is tho. cost of a license?

—H_ K., Hartford, Michigan.

The law does not require a li-‘
cense to sell milk in the country. If
the board of health or the township
authorities require an examination.
of the milk produced by you or to
be sold by yourand a. license for its"
sale, you will have-totcomply With
their regulations. Better inquire: 021.14
the board of' health—Legal Editor.

 

9..

LEAVES NO WI TIL

If a daughter. having no heirs, dies -.
before her father's estate is probate'd
can her husband claim a share. he having
married again?—Mrs. A. J. S., Farwell,
Michigan. , .

If a married woman dies without“
leaving a will and no children one
half of her property descends to her
husband. This would include prop”?
erty she inherited from her father
even though the father’s estate has
not been probated. -——Legal Editor..

 

ROSEN RYE, YIELDS "BEST IF:
RIGHTLY HANDLED ' ’ ~
(Continued from page 1)
than planting made the last of
September or ﬁrst week in October.
In soilthern Michigan the last of
September probably-would be better ,
while the date should be moved a
week to two weeks ahead for north-
ern Michigan planting. ‘It is very
evident that the date of planting is
a most important factor in the suc-
cessful production of rye as it di-
rectly effects bot-h the yield 'and
qualityof the crop.
Registered Rosen
Registered Rosen properly hand-
led .dnes not run out and it does pro—
duce increased yields of quality,
grain. Growers who are not so 10""
cated as to prevent cross-pollina-
tion with Common rye or ordinary
Rosen can well afford to get new
seed about every two to three years.
An increase of a bushel per acre per
year will meet the additional cost
and if one harvests ﬁve extra bush:
els from the'use of registered Rosen‘l ‘
a good investment has been made,
The Michigan Farm Bureau Seed
Department, Lansing, Michigan, has "
obtained from the Registered Ros
en Rye growers ‘ ~' . , hi
Crop Improveme
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"time because of the recent
*1

, shows a falling on?

61...

can 11 th t sin. ,_

» ‘ rm paper in
, . The water
has to— bormw from planting
me months alter; harvest unless
reduce is to be forced into the
- r fess just after harvest instead
17 07‘s: the crop year. This matter
8 added importance at the present
heavy
s to the tarmers, because of the
e carry-overs. because the pov-
of foreign buyers tends to de-
so their buying until their own

'ycrcps' are exhausted and thus neces-
" sitates our farmer holding on longer
.’,unless he would depreciate his price.
Acattle obviously cannot be handled
‘ on six month’s credit. . '

w “I believe some sort of deﬁnite

organization should be set up for
mobilizing credit to cover shortage
inlthis special area in the same
sense that the Federal Reserve or-
genizes very short credits, and
the Farm Loan Banks mobilize long
mortgage " credits. Such credits
should be supplied from investment
capital of the country. Such a pro-
posal is not paternalistic. As to the
precise method, whether by organs
izing'a new department in the Fed-
eral Farm Loan Banks, or other-
wise, requires much thought and in-/
vestigatlon, but such a system is, I
believe, needed and is entirely feas-
ible. "

iAGRIcuI/ruRAL BRIEFS
The new census ﬁgures shows
that Michigan produced 3,172,000
tons of hay in 1919 or 70, 000 tons
less than in 1909.

The Polish government is about
to abandon control Of.‘ foodstuffs
which. it has exercised‘slnce the war
started, except that it will rigidy
prohibit the exportation of any food
products. .

Sugar productIOn in Porto Rico
Attracted by
the high prices Which’ruled during
the war,'\Porto 'Rican farmers kept
their land in, cane too long with the
result “that“ it is now necessary - to
.turn to some other crop in order to'
maintain the fertility oi.the soil.

“Fer the ﬁrst “six months of 1921
London exported to the United
States 8 million dollars worth of
wool and 1 1-2 million dollars
worth of hides; The value of these,
half the
value of- the same products export-
ed the corresponding period of

7 "1920.

According to the E. A. Strout
Farm Agency, cash is more available
now than it was thirty days ago.
The Agency bases its statement on
the result of a questionnaire sent
out“ to" prospective buyers, which, it
is alleged, showed that these‘buy-
are had an average of $1, 000 more
available now than thirty days ago
for the purchase of farms.“ “

Latest ﬁgures on the production

:01 beet sugar in Germany for the

period beginning Sept, 1920 and
ending April. 1921, place the ten-
nage)- ot sugar at over 1,000, 000
tons, an increase of’300, 000 tons

,over the corresponding period for

the previous year. But even this
large amount of sugar is not suffi-
cient- to meet Germany’ s needs; and
the peeple are still on strict sugar

"~‘~‘“1'ations.”‘ ‘. . . .

Testimony before the House Com-

ties on Agriculture in favor of

* bog-us _milk. legislation disclos—
compounds
cecosnut

. l“. A. RA‘VSON. Hersey,

“toga.00d near tows. $2,020 .00.

which practically legislates ﬁlled

milk out of business will become a-

law.

IS pnpmrm out: THING?
”(continued from page 7)’

,deposit-ing his hands as security for

his note and paying the extra two
per cent out of his own pocket, the
he had a large family and a mort-
gage ‘tosupport. Last spring he

wanted another $100 loan and his »

banker used that unpaid Liberty
bond note as an excuse for refusing.
And he can’t sell his bonds except
at a ruinous discount.

The success otour cc-operative
enterprises means a long step tow-
ards the solution of Our 'industrial
problem, and the solution of that
problem means as much to our
country and the world as did the
military defeat of German Kaiser—
ism. But if the comparatively few
farmers who have surplus cash put
it into eight per cent preferred
stock‘ot other industries, where will
our Farm Bureau units get capital
to ﬁnance co-operative elevators,
etc? There is only one question
about our patriotism—ls it intelli-

gent enough to recognize and meet‘

the present emergency. ——Stacy
Brown, Ionia County.

That's a good thought. We are all
rather prone to be influenced by the im-
mediate proﬂt instead of the ultimate
beneﬁt._ Capital must be assured of its
security and proﬁt else it refuses to
serve. Beneﬁcial enterprises fail often
because they cannot bid so high for cap-
ital as other enterprises, less beneﬁcial,
but“ more Proﬁtable.
not be measured in terms of dollars and
cents proﬁts. This is a lesson which
farmers must learn to succeed co-oper—
atively .-—Editor. ~

Human welfare, can- “

 

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Write out whatngeu have Snows/r W '

1mm “tor 13 time: or longer.
J: In .ucnd cream

“I”:
Acre ilﬁ'ﬂ Denim-ant. “element.

return
Mum”

r Issue. '- 0
and son It In. we wl
Addrou The Michigan Business Funds?

 

 

POULTRY

YEARLIAG HEIS

White and wn Leghorns and Auconas
also a number still of 3- and 13 weeks 0
Pullets.A11-10 a limited number of White and
Barred Rock Pu lle ts.

(leukemic—White“ nRocks, White Wyandottes.

C. Reds. S. C. R. C. Brown and White
Leghorns, {ind Ancouas; 1 pair two year old
Gmy Tou ouse Geese. rite for description
and prices.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Desk 2. Kalamazoo. Mlchlaan

HAROLD MAXWELL

WASHINGTON, MICH.
REEDER OF FUR BRED S. C. WHITE
Orplngton snl Mottled Anconas. Some ﬂue
cockorels of each breed to sell.

 

 

MUD-WAY-AUSH- KA FARM
offers young stock and a few mature breeders ll
White Chinese Geese. White Runner Ducks and
White Wyandbttcs. Also 0. I. C. spring gilt.
Write today for prices on what you need.
DIK KE c. MILLER. Dryden, Mlch.

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS‘

Two great breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching cggs.- baby chicks and
breeding stoc k.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY,149 Phllo Bldl.
lmlra. N. Y.

 

UALITY CHICKS, BLACK MINORCA. LIGHT
Brahma, 25c each. Barred Rock, R. 1. Red

18 cents eac ch.
TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton, Mlch.

HIGH GRADE BREEDING COCKERELS

three _ to four months old.

Barred Rocks. S. C. R1. 1. Beds, and S. C.

White Leghorns. Just the kind to heed your

breeding pen for next season. Satisfaction

Guaranteed. For prices and information write
ROY' BIRMELE, Watervllet, Mlch.

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS
HITTAKER’S R. I. REDS. MICHIGAN'S
greatest Color and Egg Strain. Chicks all
sold. 50 good cock birds. either comb. at bar—
gain prices for quick sale. Catalog Free.
INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Lawrence. Mlch

HATCHIN‘G EGGS

NCONA COCKERELS, A (PONTHS OLD, $2:

2 for $3; 8 weeks $1.0
EVA TRYON. Jerome, Mlch.

 

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n. C. BR. LEGHORN EGGS, $1.50 FOR 15.
Pckin duck $1. 50 for 8. W. Chinese goou

/ eggs 400 each. Mrs. Claudia Betta, Hillsdsle, Mich.

 

a. I. RED HA'IEOHING EGGS. THOMPKIN" ‘.
strain, SHIO per H100: baby chicks. 260 each. 1:. '
W-m FOR NM. New Baltlmore. Mloh

 

ORPINGTO NS

OBPINGTOH cooxcncu AND PULLITI
for sale. Bud, , Whla
Black Cocksrels at 87. $8. and 810. '
88 and 85 also yearling hens S3
Hatching eggs. $6 per setting of 15
GAR BOWSKE BR08.. R 4. Merrill. Mlch.

 

 

 

WYANDOTTE

ILVER LACED GOLDEN AND WHITE WY.
andottes. Eggs. $2.50 per 15: $4. 50 for 30.
C. W. BROWNING. R 2, Portland. Mlch.

WHITE WYAHDOTTES ,.

Martin Foundation. A few good breeders for
sale. No more baby hicks this year. ”rd".
ca

 

c
cockerels now for early fall delivery.

reasonable.
C. W. HEIMBACH
Big Rapids, Mich.

 

WE ARE BREAKING UP OUR BREEDING
pens and oﬂering you this valuable stock
M £51. 75 per head. Both males and fe-
males must go. Write us now how many
you want. Satisfaction guaranteed.

LORING & MARTIN C0.

East Sauoatuck, Mlch.

 

 

 

BABY CHICKS

slNOLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN HENS AND
cocks, and early hatohsi cmkerels and pulleiL
J. W. WEBSTER - ,

Bath. Mlch.
LEGHORNS-

 

 

Grebowske’s 8. C.— Whlte Leghorns, Casket-Ola
cocks and yearling hens for sale. MI h
c .

LEO GRABOWSKE. R 4, Merrill.

LANGSHAN

DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912. Winter
hying strain of both Blank and \Vhite. Have
some cockcr 1: in snlc Eggs In mason.
DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Webbervllle. Mlch.

 

 

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Twenty words is the minimum accepted for any ad
Count 115 one word each initial and each grOup of ﬁgures,
hands before Saturday for issue dated following week.

BUSINESS FARMERS’ EXCHANGE

Form for sale ads not accepted for less than 3 times.
Cash
both in body of ad and in address].
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in this department.

The Business

accompany all orders. “
must he in our
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WITH

51, 000 SEOURES 120-ACRE FARM
fltlgl im-

automobile, crops. 6 cows, paid horses,
laments. etc. included; in famous 110 sec-
ion, edge high school town, advantages; 100
acres tillable; cuts 85 ton on hay; 20 cow spring-
watered pasture, woo . timber. fruit; good 2—
story 8- -room house, maple shaded lawn. 10— cow
ecmontm basement barn. silo, spring water. 111.

unable overstate sac flees

etc. Owner

p.11 35.00011. only 1. 000 down. De-
ta page I us. Catalog

FREE STROUT FARM A‘GENKCY 814 B .
Forl Bldg” Detroit. Mich.

IF YOU WANT TO
best farms in Arenac county,
der cultivation. machinery, everything to
start in, write the owner today for price and
full particulars, address Wm. BAUM. Au Gres.
Michigan.

a'F‘OI’I SALE—420 ACRES WITH
inery, stock. large buildings. Write
SH R10, R 3. Grand Haven, Mich.

”PRICED FOR QUICK SALE, 40 ACRES
unimproved clay loam soil 4 1-2 miles from
Alps us, a city of about 13. 000 inhabitawnts
For full description write FRED GODFREY, 1&2

IUY ONE OF THE
80 acres. 60 un-

CROPS,
PAUL

Ellhnan. Mich

“WITH OR WITHOUT
fair buldiugs. orchard,
miles from county seat.“
Michigan.

108 ‘ ACRE FARM.
c'rcps , clay. sand loam,
spring brook: 3 1-2

FOR SALE—160 ACRES, SUGAR BEET
la.nd Will exchange for city property. Pur-
ticu'hrs upon request. MORLEY \VIEDER-
HOLD. Turner. Mich. ,

40 ACRE IMPROVED FARM. CLAY LOAM
on East Mich. pikeg rural delivery; telephone;
house, new barn. outbuildings good well bearing
orchard,1—2 miles from town. LELAND

. REID Twiningl. Mich.

ON GOOD
terms. Will
Mich.

GOOD 40, FAIR BUILDINE,G8

TRACY. EuNyu nice,

FARMS FOR' SALE: SIX IMPROVED PHO-
ductive farms comprising 535 acres. Can be
split up in units wi buildings from 40 acres
£1115?“de Watt0 litre; living toona {hid tﬂamining

p; presen u owing “0 er us ness
amylase. we wish dispose of part of our
lan d. Loco tion, terms, and price attractive.
Write ‘what you want. PALMER. BROS. Or-

:' leans. Mich ll’m

«r can
~ Ellsweft

ACRES
rite
1:99" High”

 

 

can
lilote Barnitﬁ- '

WANTED TO RENT—A GOOD FARM.
Want someone to go in the purebred business on
shares. Have one of the best herds of Duroc-
Mail-3:“ in the state—VIRGIL DAVIS.A8h1ey.

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ACRES, 5
land.
Mich.

RENT—40
buildings.

FOR SALE OR
Good
LODER, 8St. Charles,

acres plowed. fair
Easy terms. JOHN

FOR SALE—80 ACRE FARM, NO. 1 SOIL,
all under cultivation. 1200111 house with
basement. outside buildings. Good or-
chard. 1 mile to railroad station, 5 to town.
Pearl 39, 200. For particulars write to R
SCHULTZ. Pinoonning, Michigan.

FOR SALE—A FIRST CLASS FARM. 3
Good0 1buildings, all newly
12‘). acres for
HEMPIY, R. 7, Lansing
Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—120 ACRE FARM, 5 MILES
south of Willinmston. Stan ne roads, tiled 1111!

No.1 buildings. \Vill sell con-
tract. Will take any ml of stock as ﬁrst
payment. CHARITIES HODGE dz SON. Dans—
ville.M1’chigan,R 2.

FOR SALE—120 ACRES WITH CROPS.
machinery. stock. 10-room house 40x60, base—
{Intenll‘ bigm'l. Write C. COLTON, Luther, Mlch..

 

 

FOR SALE. '——’40 ACRE FARM IN MICHI-

an. One of the ﬁnest farms in (‘loverland
Good buildings, cows. ‘ horses 50 (Illr‘r
ens. 4 sows. and all implements. Near sohomls
churches and town. All is nd t- ’lnble. I" sure
sol on at once. \Vill sacriﬁce. Write "l“
A‘NDERSON. 2647 N. I’Iitlstead St, (‘l1'<~:~.m~.

@18CELLANEOyg
' MACHINElu

MACHINERY. PORTABLE
mills for fnrmers' use. Make your own lumtwr.
Send for new catalog. HILL-CURTIS 00.. 1507
No Pitcher St. Kalamazoo. Ml.ch

CORN HARVESTER CUTS AND FILES 0N
harvester or winrows. Man and horse cuts and
shocks equal Corn Binder. Sold in every state
Only $28 with fodder tieing attachment. Testi—
monials and catalog FREE showing picture of
1.1arvester CE SS HARVESTER CO. Se

. Kansas. .

 

 

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GENERAL

FOR SALE—TO BE SOLD IN THE NEXT
The Wolverine Elgine Creamery

._ is
interested see or write MARK SCOTT. “Wolverine, ,
'mohigam, . .

 

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Bees free, aru’l‘ So.»

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TRUNKS. BAGS. SUITCASES. WHY PAY
two middlemen proﬁts? Buy from factory di-
rect. Stud for free catalog. GEM TRUNK &
BAG I‘M TORY Spring Valley. Ill.

IGHTNING RODS. “EXCLUSIVE AGENCY

d quick rules to Live Dealers seUing DID.
DIE IlLI’l‘ZEN RODS' Our copper test.
09 96 per cent PURE.

“’rite for Agency. Pri 1’
are right. L. M. Diddle 00.. Marshﬂeld, Wk, ?
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-ﬂwmjorltyof‘ourinﬁumﬂalmn
Lofudhirsumloaldngloramurkedi
.lmprovement lathe demand for all.

A . these

mun mmiwumw
THE W andmkct outlook

ofthemnuwemtobesame-
whatmlxedotﬂilswriﬂug but

manufactured commodities that can

be classed as the necessities of‘life.’
- Wool, hides and cotton
been active and ﬁrm otlate, as a. re-'
sult of a greatly increased demand

have

for the ﬁnished product; derived from
important raw materials.
Manufacturers report a rapidly
growing demand for woolen and
cotton goods and for some of the
~better grades of leather. The iron

and steel trade is still at low water .

mark from the $1“:th of produc-
tion but orders for structural steel
and pig iron are gradually increas-
ing, indicating that the bottom of
the slump has been reached and that
business from now on will be gradu-
ally up-grade. The United States
Steel Corporation’s report of the
earnings during the second quarter
of the current year must be regard-
ed as very encouraging when the
business conditions which prevailed
during the period referred to are
taken into consideration; the report
shows net earnings of almost $22,-
000,000. when the pcssimists were
estinmting less than half that
mount. In his report to the stock-
holders President Gary predicted the
early advent of a big business boom
in this country.

Bradstreet,’s commodity index for
July showed another slight gain in
commodity values, a fact; which is
signiﬁcant only as it seems to indi-
cate that liquidation has run its
course and that a healthy demand
for staple commodities at gradually

' hardening prices. is sure to feature

business during the early months of
1922.

Disregarding the encouraging
symptoms mentioned above, the
New York stock market has been
slumping at an alarming rate of
late: the bear interests are in the
saddle on the floor of the stock ex-
change and they are mettins: with
no organized opposition. Call mon-
ey worked up to 6 per cent. late last
week and rates asked for both short
and long time paper, were also in-
creased by interior banks. As was
mentioned in this department last.
week, the effort which banks are

' making to properly ﬁnance the crop

  
 
 
 
 
 

movement is having the effect to
tighten up money and to make it

increasingly hard for farmers and_

business men in general to secure
money needed in their business.

One of the most encouraging of
recent market. developments has
been the breaking of the long drouth
in many of the leading sections of
the country and the rapid improve-
ment of the corn and potato crops.
Grain and provision futures are
showing more activity of late than
formerly and the latter scored a big
permanent gain during the early
days of August. Trading in futures
would assume much greater import-
ance were it. not for the marked

i .scarcity of funds for investment. In

 
  
  

  

common with the captains of in-
dustry the country‘s leading statis-
ticians are predicting a business re-‘
viva] for next year. Last week 5
bank clearings were $6. 548,228,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT
WHEAT PRICES PER BU., AUG. 10. 1921
.Grade thmvlu. 1..
lo. 2 Rod . “$1.26 1.22" 1.88 '
No. 2 White . 1.21 '
Io. Hired .. 1.21 , "L81
- . \ , PRIOES ONE YEM ‘00
.4 {No 2 30111400. 2 WM“! N02 °M|xed
- oms’l 2.42 1 2.“ "1,;

 

 

 

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”mung“ of the current “week and

were back again to their-mm:
‘ I" cak— ' The.

all.

‘ two

 

    
 
   
   
 

. AILer several unsettled days 11181: A
week 111 which prices decnned _fr6m'

Edited by u. R. 1111-1111

GENERAL MARKET SUMMARY

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DETROIT—Wheat very strong; corn lower; oats steady
Beans back to $4 per cwt.

CHICAGO—~Wheat, corn and oats higher. Vigorous export
demand. Cattle strong and higher.

Potatoes higher.

1

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(Note: The above summarized Information was unsolved AFTER the balance 0' thin-\-
lt comm last minute Information up to unm- OM-halt hour of

kc! page is set in type.
. 10an to press -—Edltor.

 

 

 

 

easier market was ascribed to a va-
riety of causes, principal among
which was the temporary cessation
of foreign demand, and selling by
“short” interests.- As a stabilizing
factor the movement showed a fall-
ing off. At the opening of the cur-
rent week the situation was revers-
ed. Exporters were again in the
market, and Supplies showed an in-
crease, but not sufficient to weaken
the market. Germany is likely to
prove a big factor in the wheat deal
this season. She has already pur-
chased a number of millions 0! bush

els and needs more. The eagerness
with which the exporters pick up
grain when prices fall off a cent or
is encouraging evidence that
the trade the world over is looking
for higher prices before the next
crap. If only the big wheat growers
of the middle west. will perceive the‘
“handwriting on the wall, “ and de-
sist from their beaVy marketing, it
will mean millions of dollars in the

pockets of not only wheat growers,

but rye. oats and corn growers
well.

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OATS

OAT PRICES (new) BU.AUG.10.1921

Grade [Detamlt lGhlcaaol N. Y
No. 2 Whit. .
’lo. ‘Whlf: 1.1%“; a: T 51%
No. '

P‘RicEs ONE YEAR AGO

No.2 Whitel No.3 White! No.4 White
wt 1 .92 l .91 '1 so"

 

 

 

About the only encouraging feat-
ure to the cat market is the enor-
mous drop in the estimated produc-
tion. Threshing has progressed far
enough in the leading oat states to
show that the fears for an unpre-
cedentedly poor crop are amply
justiﬁed. Concerning cats, the de-

partment of agriculture reported as‘

of.July 30th, says: “The crop has

 

been damaged greatly by the heat
and drought and both yield
quality are generally reported as
poor. Many ﬁelds will be cut 101‘
hay and some will not be cut at all."
The cat yield in Michigan has been
disappointing but it is no worse, it
indeed, as bad, as in many other
states. Despite the very poor out-
look for anywhere near a normal
CI'OD. the Kmarket is in a‘weak con-
dition and prices are inclined to
sag, But in the long run, cats are
sure to come back strong.

 

 

 

. CORN
CORN PRICES PER B ., 100.10. {921
Grade lDatrolt lchlcagol I. Y.
"'1. 3 Yellow . 38% 31
No. Yellow .

 

No. 4 Yellow
__ emcee one YEAR Aeo L

No.2 1911.! 1|on v.11: No.4 Volt:
W ..i 1.02 J l

 

 

 

 

Recent rains and cooler weather
have changed the corn situation ma-
terially in the last ten days. Al-
though some corn suttered irrepar-
able damage from the drought and
heat, an enormous acreage was sav-
ed by the timegx rains and lower
temperatures. ichigan, it appears
now, will produce her banner corn
crop this year. In most counties
the condition is excellent. Because,
of the probable scarcity of wheat
and oats, a large export business is
looked for in corn. which should
keep prices fairly well stabilized
despite the large crop.

' RYE
Not much doing yet in rye. Last
week rye went down to $1.15 on

the Detroit market, and we said it
might go lower. . It has. As we go
to press it is down to $1.08, and I
don‘t wonder as 1- read of theiarm—
ers who are hauling every bushel of

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Food- Weather Gun for AUG. 1921

Cool

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WASHINGTON. D .C., August 11,
1921.——-Highest temperatures of Au-
gust are expected during the week
centering on 18 west of meridian 90;
on 19 between 90 and the Atlantic
coast and on 20 in the Atlantic
states. Moisture will continue to
come from the email north Atlantic
ocean and therefore eastern sections
will continue to get the most dis-
agreeable eﬂects of the danip atmos-
phere called humidity. But the hum-
idity for August will not be so great
as it was in July. because the storm
forces will not be so intense—will
not evaporate so much moisture born
the: ocean. Probably August: temper-
wire; will average nearly as high as
they (1 tor July but w 11 not go t1
"such great extremes and will net be

foo d-isa Following this ‘hlgh‘
" 195,311ng the temperatures will

 

 

   
 
 

 
  
  
 

 

.5 go- do-‘Wn more rapidly than us‘bal
',:Not much rain during August; Sep-I‘
' bar will be much better. All

5 tan run.

; this will beI favorable to Sowing junta"
er mmmlntor an! expect m av-

grain «apps for 1922

‘ but WWW myieId for «111113 large part

 

THE WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK
- As Fox-coasted by w. '1'. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

not much relief or the
‘tloas ‘61'1’ this continent

    
 
 

erage yields are in the middle lati-
tudes of the great central valleys Of
America.

Individual predictions are being
published that a very cold, seven
winter ls just before us. I do not em
it that way. I expect an averagr
winter. The cold and warm winters
cool and hot summers are caused by
the location of the evaporations. Dur-
ing the summer of 1921 the evapor-
ations came from the Gal: stream
that flows northeastward over thc
north Atlantic. hence the hot and dis
agreeable summer. When evapora-'
tions come from the icy cold water!
then we get the cold winters. Evap-
oratious for November will come iron
the middle Paciﬁc: not much evapor-
ation for December; for January from
Gulf of Mexico; February from mid-
dle Atlantic near the equator, co
paratlvely cool waters; March trorr
Paciﬁc west of Central America. mod
erately cool waters.

Following the stones due on met-t
dim 90 near Aug. 19. the trend of
temperatures will be more rapidly
downward than usual, but I see nr
indication of August frosts in Can

These August frosts are caused
by severe storms and I have none of
these in the August forecasts; thr,
month premises to be sluggish With -_
a. shortage of rain east of great lakes
1- see no ope of a breaking 01 the
Macon oath nature October an

Sec- .
hetero the

 

 

andL

fee on the Detroit market for

Jam about 1111;

elevator 01 course, they mus
met some or their grain in order $9
meet current “bills and but 1111136?

nous, but may should think twice;

before letting their total rye. cm]?
80 {91" less than $1 per bushel,”
view of existing circumstances.’
'BEAl! emcee run cw... Ace. 10. 18211
emu lemon losing“ 1!. v'."

P. Anti 8.35 1.4.15 1‘50

“ed "Kidneys .
rmczs on: YEAR (mo ‘ ‘_
10.31,. P.
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The bean market reminds us. of
a monkey on a string. But 'who the
gentry are pulling the string we do
not know. Beans advanced to. $4
per cwt. on the Detroit market last.
week, and hovered there for .two

in .

   
   
 
 
  

   
 
  
   
  
  
 
   
  
  

days when it slumped in (We am ., _

to $3. 85. Smce then the market has
been quiet but or late it again shows
signs of improvement and addi-
tional advances wbuld not be out of
order.

California, which has been Mich-
igan's most active competitor in
beans for the last four years, re-
ports a large decrease in stocks on
hand. On December lst, last, there
were over two million bags of all
varieties of beans on hand. By
July let this had dwindled to 903, -
537 bags.
different varieties of which only two
or three may be considered as com-
petitors oi the Michigan bean. And
these probably represent less than
one—third- ot the total California
holdings With carry-over stocks
rapidly cleaning up, a protective
tariff in prospect and a decreased
production for 1921 the bean situa-
tion looks considerably more en-
couraging than it has for some
time. -

 

POTA'IOES
The condition of late potatoes has
improved materially in this state
during the past ten days as a re—
sult of copious rains. The yield,
however, will be less than normal.
Potatoes generally all over the

country have beneﬁted from recent -.

rains, but will not be able to re-
cover entirely from the drought
damage- The crop report of the
American Steel £1 Wire 00., for the
week ending July 6th says of pota-
toes in Pennsylvania, New York and
New Jersey: “Potatoes leave much
to be desired, ranging all the way
from a failure on early potatoes to

fairly good on late potatoes." . As-
a matter of fact the condition of
potatoes is universally poor. As we

write this the government’s crop re-
port for August lst has not yet been
made public but we expect that it
will show some decline in the po-
tato estimate from that given on
July 1st. We do not expect to see
any fancy prices paid for the 1921
crop. but it the condition of the
crop does not improve before ‘har-
vesting, potatoes should command

materially higher prices than last
season.
Early potato prices continue to

advance on most markets, although

the movement from New Jersey and 1‘

other early potato states is at its
height. This fact can only be ac;
counted for by the general feeling
that the late crop "will be poor. _

HAY

The hay market is quiet but ﬁrm, -
and prices act as if they were 11112112:
\ to stay for some time

There ha
been no appreciable change in

tinie, demand having be
about able to take care
We repeat Whatw

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1 Reboring and regrinding at 1:1-
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Ford Authorized Dealers

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-’ ' , POOR LIVESTOCK BREEDING
wSTS IARMER HEAVILY
(Continued from page 4)
. their selling price when fat. Such
' ‘ teeters lose sight of the fact that
‘the man who bred the scrubs has to
sell them s} prices greatly below
thou of well-bred «1119 The iced-
er buying- well-bred cattle on the
market, must meet packer competi-
tion as well- as that of other teed-
are, but the feeder buying scrub
-,,- ' cattle has the competition of only
‘ a few at his “own kind. It is even
’ more important that the producer
and breeds of beef cattle makes
proﬁt than the feeder, since the
produce II fundamental to the
, feeders operations.

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LIVE. STOCK MARKETS

The time has at last arrived when
the selling value of cattle is purely ‘
a question of quality. All last week
in Choose, prime, dry-fed. steers -
and year-Hugs, with killing quality, ’
were active Ind ﬁrm, prices averag-
ing from. 40 to 50 cents higher than
during the week before: grassy est-
tle were as much lower as the good
kinds were higher and the medium,
Ill-between grades were uneven at
undependable valum. Eastern
dressed beef markets were active
and in some cases fully $1 per cwt.
higher than on the week before.
From the standpoint of the produc-
er, the demand for cattle offers much
more encouragement than formerly
simply, because it places a premium
upon high quality. The top paid for
I yearling cattle, last week, was
, $10.25 but on Monday of this week,
a few sales were made at $10. 40.
Heavy cattle are selling better, just
now, than on any preceding date,
this year, but in the aged steer di—
vision, the most popular weight is
around 1,300 pounds. .

Last, week’s Chicago cattle re-
ceipts were 4,500 larger than those
of the week before but the average
quality was the poorest of the sea.-
son, the supply of medium and-com-
zmon cattle being larger than the
current demand warrants; the own;
ers of grass-fed cattle are sending
them forward, evidently, in antici-
pation of the early movement 01’
western range cattle the advance
guard of which has already appear-
ed in some markets. About the same
conditions prevailed in the butcher—
cattle division as among the steers:
high—grade cows and heifers, show-
ing steer quality, were active and

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ﬁrm, some of the letter selling on a
par; some of the yearling steers on
offer.

Offerings of sheep and lambs, in
the Chicago market, were nearly
.8,000 head smaller than for the
previous week and the latter scored
a gain, over last week’s price range
of 25 cents per cwt. on natives and
5.0 cents on westerns. What lambs
gained, last. Week, sheep lost, the
better grades of wethers selling ‘50
to 75 cents lower than during the
week before; about the best that
could- be done for high-grade Mon-
tana. wethers, on last week's close,
being $5.35. Yearling wethers were
scarce with “a 7—dollar top. Native
lambs topped at $10.50 and west-
erns at $10.35.

Comparatively small arrivals of
live hogs in all markets Is the lift— ,
ing force that is holding up values
in this department to a. general level
which does not meet With the ap-
proval of the Chicago packing house

are staying out. of the market; as
long as shippers continue to
from a quarter to a third of the
IdsilyreeeiptsstChicamhogralues
| will hold.

Cured pork products and lard are
Fmeeting with on: active demand.
both for export and domestic con-
summon. - A recent report, of
stocks of lard held in Chicago ware-
houses, shows as shrinkage since the
lat preceding report“ I ,M.W0 I
pounds, as it now stands the supply
of lard In the _Windy City is« only
1.0 fin-linen pounds larger than on
the same date last year. The 'Au-
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Send for these silo and cutter books. They are
an education 11: such matters. Don't buy a silo
or cutter until you have

read them. Rea about
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alamazoo, Mich.

WINDMILL PRICES REDU

For the second time this year the prices of the Auto-oiled
have bear reduced. We are glad to give our
customers the beneﬁt of the lower costs of
rawmateriaLaMofeveryothasavhrgwhkzh
our enormous output enables us to make. At .
the present low prices of Aermotor goods there '
is no reason why anyone should postpone
buying. You can now buy an 8-foot Auto-oiled
Aermotnrand WEB-foot mien-$2001. 0.11. Cliengo.
Primed ahmhcrsimmmtiomtdylow Whyclimba ..
tower tooii an old windmill when the self oiling Aermotor,wh1ch
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It is just as important to YOU that the company you“ insure with has
ample assets and a record of years of successful operation.

There are now many mutual automobile insurance companies operating in Michigan. Their? agents
are WOI'klng in every country. Many of, them are making great claims and some even claiming lower

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l ' When their agents 0311. 011 3’011 and impel-tune you to insure your car with them — ASK FOR
a ’I‘HEIR FINANCIAL STATEMENT! * 1 ~ - -

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- Then compare their staternent with that of the Citihens’ Mutual Auto Ins. Company, which on

August ﬁrst, 1921, was as folloWsi
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i 1 . Collision \ 199,161.18 ., '
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‘ -— 'ASSETS:' _ ; '_ j' ﬂ 7:
Cash and Government .Bonds . . $125,069.24 : "
Oﬂice Buildingand Equipment ....-......-...."41,349.51 3
i 7 ‘ “Total Resources ....‘$1‘66‘,‘418.75 - V " ‘ * i

Compare. these ﬁgures with any mutual automobile insurance" company operating in Michigan. ‘

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